Research

Analysing time use data

Time Use Resources

Resources to help analyse the MTUS, ATUS and ATHUS:

1. MTUS is a project dedicated to making it easy for researchers to use data from around the world.

2. Annual American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data from 2003 forward.

3. Historical American time use data since 1930 harmonized for comparison over time, including the ATUS samples.

Access the Multinational Time Use Study datasets

CaDDI

In collaboration with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, we have created three Stata Do files that can be used to:

1. Create new variables (duration of and participation in activities)

2. Time diary quality indicators

3. Instantaneous enjoyment variables.

GitHub

Key studies

A short history of time use research: implications for public health

Bauman A, Bittman M, Gershuny J

Testing Self-Report Time-Use Diaries against Objective Instruments in Real Time

Gershuny J, Harms T, Doherty A, Thomas E, Milton K, Kelly P, Foster C

Using time use diaries to track changing behavior across successive stages of COVID-19 social restrictions

Sullivan O, Gershuny J, Sevilla A, Foliano F, Vega-Rapun M, Lamote de Grignon J, Harms T, Walthery P

A validation study of the Eurostat harmonised European time use study (HETUS) diary using wearable technology

Harms T, Gershuny J, Doherty A, Thomas E, Milton K, Foster C

Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent Gender and Class differences in Cultural Voraciousness

Katz-Gerro T and Sullivan O

Anticipation of work-life conflict in higher education by:

Susana Pasamar (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain)

Karen Johnston (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Portsmouth, UK)

Jagriti Tanwar (Centre for Time-Use Research, IOE-University College, Bloomsbury, London)

Time use diary design for our times - an overview, presenting a Click-and-Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI) for online application

Sullivan O, Gershuny J, Sevilla A, Walthery P, Vega-Rapun M

The Social Structure of Time: Emerging Trends and New Directions

Cornwell B, Gershuny J, Sullivan O

Breastfeeding

The effects of breastfeeding not just on children, but also on the mothers and employers.

The social disorganization of eating: a neglected determinant of the Australian epidemic of overweight/obesity

Bittman M, Cleary E, Wilkinson-Bibicos C, Gershuny J

Daily metabolic expenditures: estimates from US, UK and polish time-use data

Harms T, Berrigan D, Gershuny J

Does Diary Mode Matter in Time-Use Research?

Chatzitheochari S and Mylona E