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:

• 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.
• Daily Life and Social Change is a wide-ranging project, funded by the ESRC, pursuing a large number substantive and methodological research topics.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

  Completed Research Projects