Time-use measurement and research : report of a workshop / / Michele Ver Ploeg ... [et al.], editors ; Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Disciplina: 640.43
• Soggetto topico: Time management; Time management surveys
• Altri autori: Ver PloegMichele
• Note generali: "The project that is the subject of this report is supported by Contract SES-9709489 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Institute of Aging"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Importance of Time-Use Data""; ""3 Conceptual Issues""; ""4 The Current State of Data on Time Use""; ""5 Survey Design Issues""; ""6 The Proposed BLS Time-Use Survey""; ""7 Summary""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A Workshop Agenda""; ""APPENDIX B Summaries of Workshop Papers""; ""APPENDIX C Proposed Coding System for Classifying Uses of Time for the Proposed BLS Survey""; ""APPENDIX D Draft Questionnaire for Proposed BLS Survey""
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most substantial policy changes in the past decade was the elimination of the main social welfare program for poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, ending the entitlement to cash benefits and replacing it with a policy emphasizing work. A question relevant for understanding the consequences of this policy change is how the time allocation among work and family care activities of poor families has changed. President Clinton's proposed budget for fiscal 2001 includes funds for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to develop a survey to measure how Americans spend their time (U.S. Department of Labor, 2000). BLS has already explored the feasibility of such a survey. In 1997, a pilot study that collected time-use data for a sample of Americans was conducted, and the results of that study were presented at a 1997 conference sponsored by BLS and the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. Using knowledge gained from the pilot study and the conference, BLS published a report on the feasibility of a national time-use survey and developed a proposal to conduct the survey. Time-Use Measurement and Research is a summary of a workshop convened to consider data and methodological issues in measuring time use. This report discusses why time-use data are needed, highlighting many of policy and behavioral applications of time-use data. It also summarizes conceptual issues covered during the workshop, discusses a framework for how individuals and households allocate their time, and comments on some conceptual issues in measuring time use.
• Titolo autorizzato: Time-use measurement and research
• ISBN: 0-309-17181-4; 0-309-51488-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969863603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Compass series (Washington, D.C.)