SURVEY DESIGN & OBJECTIVES

- Module of Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS)

- To measure the individual's use of time for social and economic analysis, e.g.-- productivity, informal sector size, women's economic activities

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

Self-completed diary for literate persons; recall interview for non-literate persons

SURVEY INSTRUMENTS ( 2.93MB)
Description

Simplified time diary with 23 activities pre-listed as rows and time-line in 15-minute increments starting with 4 am as column

Recording of simultaneous activities

None

Context variables

None

ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION

23 activities listed in survey instrument

TIME SAMPLE

Covers whole year on a periodic (monthly) basis:  each respondent provides diary data for one day randomly selected during the third week of data collection for the HEIS

REFERENCE POPULATION
Description

National; urban and rural; household population
Persons 15 years old and over

Sample selection

All eligible persons in 50 percent of the 4,148 sample households of the HEIS

RESPONSE RATE

95% response rate

SOURCES

The Overall Monitoring of Annual National Indicators. 1999. Technical Report. Statistics Sweden