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Country:	Brazil 2001
Study Title:	Belo Horizonte Time Use Survey
Collector:	Neuma Aguair, Federal University of Minas Gerais, with funding from the Brazilian National Research Council and the Center for Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
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Sampling Method and Study Design:	This survey tracked time use patterns in households in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The survey team drew a probability sample of households, and asked all household members aged 8 and older to keep two 24-hour diaries, one on a randomly selected week day, and other on a randomly selected weekend day. Literate participants were given precoded diaries with 10 minute intervals. Non-literate participants were given diaries with activities displayed in pictograms that included 1 minute intervals
Sample Size:	376 households, 1124 weekday diaries, 1133 for weekend diaries
Response Rate:	94%
Weighting Procedures:	Data are not weighted
Source of Information:	Neuma Aguair. (2005) "Time Use and Household Inequality: Behavioural and Perceptual Data" Paper presented at the the annual meeting of the International Association for Time Use Research, Halifax, Canada 2-4 November 2005
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