Timing of Activities through the Day and the Week

We start by considering historical change in the times of day and week that different sorts of people engage in various activities, and how these have responded to changes in public regulations and services (eg maximum work hours, levels of childcare provisions).

• What was the impact of shop hours deregulation and Sunday opening?
• Has time been shifted across the week, and has shopping as a result been redistributed from women during the week to men at the weekend?
• Does the internet lead, for example, to spreading activities more evenly across the day?
• Is there gender differentiation in the timing of paid work during the day?

Time diaries often register multiple simultaneous activities, and co-presence, and often also collect simultaneous diaries from multiple household members-materials which are seldom used together. The HETUS material will allow for the first time proper cross-national comparisons taking account of these.