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Country:	BENIN 1998
Study Title:	1998 Time use Survey
Collector:	National Institute of Statistics and economic Analysis
When Conducted:	March to April 1998 for rural areas; April 1998 for urban areas
Sampling Method and Study Design:	The study aimed to sample the national population by collecting information in typical urban and rural areas (Mono and Zou districts). The survey used a two-tier procedure, sampling regions from National Statistical Institute maps, then from lists of households. All household members aged 6 to 65 were asked to provide time use information. Interviewers contacted households to inform them of the study, then helped participants to complete the diaries on the next day after the diary date. The study collected diaries on one day for 24 hours, starting from 4AM, in 15 minute intervals. The diaries included 63 pre-defined activities ordered into 8 groups: (1) market economic activities; (2) non-market economic activities; (3) domestic work; (4) ordinary social activities; (5) ceremonial and other social activities; (6) travel; (7) leisure; (8) education; (9) other activities. Interviewers marked the main activity for each time slot with an "X", and marked any secondary activity with an "O". When diarists left a short gap of 15 minutes of no recorded activity, the interviewer coded the gap as the beginning of the activity recorded in the next 15 minutes. The study also collected information about agriculture (access to land, technology owned and used, animals owned and crops grown, earnings, and who was responsible for the parcel of land the household works).
Sample Size:	5,834 persons from 1,787 households in urban areas; 6,770 persons from 1,419 households in rural areas
Response Rate:	Not reported in the documentation reviewed for this entry - though UN and FAO reports suggest that response rates were high and refusal rates low
Weighting Procedures:	The sample was drawn in a manner to balance the proportion of rural and urban households. The interviewers were also instructed to balance the collection of diaries from different days of the week, so if too many Mondays had been collected one week and not enough Saturdays, in the next more, more Saturday diaries and fewer Monday diaries were collected, so day weights were not needed in the data. The survey team calculated weights to inflate the sample size to reflect the size of the national population
Source of Information:	United Nations Statistics Division, Methodologie et resultats: Enquete Emploi du Temps au Benin, 1998 Food and Agriculture Organisation (1999, reprinted 2001) "Annex 2. Case Study: Gender-Specific Statistics and Agricultural Censuses in Tunisia and Benin" in Agricultural Censuses and Gender Considerations - Concept and Methodology
Available Documentation:	Benin Survey Design

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