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:

Methodology

• Innovations in time use analysis - The CTUR team and its associates innovate in the development of the analysis of time use data, including sequences and synchronization, modelling of sequences, multiple activities. This work is a part of the ESRC-funded Developing the Centre for Time Use Research (grant RES-060-25-0037).
• Development of the time use research field - We have compiled an extensive library of time use resources and are developing lists of time use publications. This project both will document methodological developments and innovations in the field over the last 150s years and also improve the CTUR current on-line resources. This work is a part of the ESRC-funded Developing the Centre for Time Use Research (grant RES-060-25-0037).

Substantive Topics

• Breastfeeding and time use - information available shortly.
• Cross-national policy differences and the relationship to time use - This project investigates the policy correlates of national differences in historical changes in 'time-budgets'. This work is a part of the ESRC-funded Developing the Centre for Time Use Research (grant RES-060-25-0037).
• Gender and time allocation - This 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.
• Household accounts - Household accounts: money and socio-economic time accounts. This project involves the macro-level extension of household accounts, with the objective of providing a combined monetary and time based system of national accounts. This work is a part of the ESRC-funded Developing the Centre for Time Use Research (grant RES-060-25-0037).
• 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.

Data

• 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 50 studies from 22 countries.
• 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. We are upgrading this database to include variables in the MTUS as well as to add further datasets.
• Diaries from Young People - These files follow the MTUS format and cover the diaries of people aged 17 and younger.
• Supplementary MTUS files for the United Kingdom - These files offer additional variables for use with the MTUS files from the United Kingdom.

  Completed Research Projects