Current Research of the Time Use Team
Primary time use research is an intrinsic part of our overall time-use programme.
The major projects on which we are currently working include the following:
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American Heritage Time Use Study
(AHTUS) contains harmonised time use datasets from the United States from 1965-66 through 2003, and
facilitates the study of national accounts as well as monitoring of changes in time use
in this country.
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Daily Life and Social Change
is a wide-ranging project, funded by the ESRC, pursuing a large number substantive and
methodological research topics.
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Gender and Time Allocation
is a node of the newly funded ESRC Gender Network led by Dr Jacquie Scott of Cambridge University.
It uses time budget survey materials alongside panel survey materials to investigate the relationship
between division of domestic labour within households and the gender wage gap.
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Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) is central to the
activities of the time use group and is our longest running project.
It is a continually growing collection of national studies, harmonized for
the purposes of comparative research, and currently contains around
42 studies from 15 countries.
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Time Allocation Among Couples
both covers the development of a dataset of time use by couples where both partners kept diaries on the
day, initially for the United Kingdom, and also analyses how couples interact and allocate household tasks.