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SURVEY DESIGN & OBJECTIVES
- Independent survey
- To measure and analyse time spent
from day-to-day by different individuals
- To provide new information on the division of both
paid and unpaid labor between women and men and other
groupings
- To incorporate unpaid work in satellite accounts
- To gain more insight on the reproductive and leisure
activities of household members
- To gain more understanding of productive activities
such as subsistence work, casual work and work in
the informal sector
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
Recall interview
SURVEY
INSTRUMENTS  (119KB)
Description
Main instrument for recording activities
is 4 am to 4 am time diary; activity recording is
per 30-minute intervals; up to three activities per
30-minute interval is recorded; post-coding.
Household questionnaire asks who is the main person
responsible for doing housework; individual questionnaire
obtains information on number of children, detailed
information on work, and asks respondent to classify
business as formal/informal
Recording of simultaneous activities
Simultaneous activities are recorded;
no prioritization of activities into primary, secondary
or tertiary
Context variables
Location; purpose of travel
ACTIVITY
CLASSIFICATION
Adaptation of UN trial classification:
10 major groups; some changes in 2-digit level
of group 1; 3-digit level extensions for specific
country situations
TIME SAMPLE
Covers whole year on a periodic (trimester)
basis; design calls for all days of the week to be
uniformly represented by allocating interview days
to enumerators accordingly; each respondent provides
diary data for one day
REFERENCE POPULATION
Description
National; urban-rural; settlement
types (urban formal, urban informal, rural commercial
farms, rural other/ tribal areas)
Persons 10 years old and over
Sample selection
Two eligible household members are
randomly selected for each sample household; planned
total sample size is 10,800 dwelling units; all households
in a sample dwelling unit are selected
RESPONSE RATE
84% in first tranche
SOURCES
- Country
report. 2000. Expert Group Meeting for Conducting
Time-use Surveys. New York. (200
KB)
- 2000 Time Use Survey Fieldworker's
Manual.
(116 KB)
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