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SURVEY DESIGN & OBJECTIVES
- Independent survey
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To estimate what people do, how they spend their time,
what does everday life look like, how much time is
spent on gainful employment, unpaid work, leisure
activities, personal activities, how do population
groups and countries differ in these respects
- To provide basic data and new information about
the volume and pattern of the unpaid women's household
work
- To deduce policy implications from the result of
the time use survey such as sharing of household work
by men and women for gender equity, and spreading
of paid and unpaid work in rural area
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
Combination of self-completed diary
and interview background questionnaires
SURVEY
INSTRUMENTS
Description
Main instrument for recording activities
was a full time diary starting from 0 a.m. to 24:00
p.m.; 10-minute fixed time interval;
Household and individual questionnaires
Recording of simultaneous activities
Secondary activity was recorded
Context variables
Location; with whom (for eating activity
only); for whom (for family care activity only); paid/unpaid
(for work in family business, work on family farm,
work on family farm and garden not for sale)
ACTIVITY
CLASSIFICATION
9
major groups (1-digit); 40 2-digit groups
TIME SAMPLE
Covered a single period; all days
of the week were covered by assigning two diary days
to each respondent; in designating diary days week-end
days were covered twice more than week days
REFERENCE POPULATION
Description
National; household population;
Persons 10 years old and over
Sample selection
All eligible respondents in 17,000
sample households were selected or a total of 46,109
sample respondents
RESPONSE RATE
94.7 percent of sample respondents
SOURCES
- Country
report. 2000.Expert Group Meeting on Methods
for Conducting Time-Use Surveys. New York.
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