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Appendix B Summaries of Workshop Papers
Appendix B Summaries of Workshop Papers
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Robinson Experience Sampling Method: Current and Potential Research Applications 84 Jiri Zuzanek An International Perspective to Collecting Time-Use Data Michael Bittman 79 80 82 83 73 86
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The outputs associated with these inputs of time are of various sorts: command over market goods and services is the output of time spent working for pay; nonmarket outputs such as orderly houses, well- or ill-behaved children, and gourmet meals are the outputs of nonmarket work in the household; improved health, skills, or stocks of information are additional nonmarket outputs; and direct enjoyments or satisfactions from the activities themselves are the final outputs of the system. The role of capital stock in this view of the generation of well-being is crucial and has a rather unconventional flavor in comparison with the usual economic meaning of capital.
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Select a random sample of households, collect time diaries from all eligible persons in that household, and collect multiple time diaries for each eligible person: an obvious choice for the number of diaries to be collected for each eligible person would be four two weekdays, one Saturday, and one Sunday, spread randomly over the course of the year. Which of these designs is most appealing depends in part on the analytic objectives of the study, but also on considerations of statistical noise, interclass correlation, and relative cost.
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The theoretical framework also covers how households allocate time towards producing commodities and how the commodities are allocated to household members. Finally, the paper describes a theoretical framework for how individuals sort into marriage (and form a multiperson household)
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Joint labor force and nonmarket work statuses for married couples are also presented. In addition, the paper simulates husbands' nonmarket work activities in response to their wives working more hours and in response to working more hours themselves.
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. Similarly, the responsiveness of husband's time spent doing household chores as his own time spent working for pay varies from zero to over 60 hours per week (holding constant the time his wife spends working for pay at the average for all women)
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" The study compares responses to stylized questions on time spent reading to children with responses from time diaries on time spent reading to children. Results show that 47 percent of children aged 3-5 were read to on a daily basis according to the stylized questions, but only 29 percent of the children were read to on a weekday or a weekend day according to the time diary reports.
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For researching these issues, extensive data are needed about different generations iData sets summarized are the 1965 Multi-national Time Budget Research Project, 19751976/1981-1982 Time Use Project, Americans Use of Time Project, Canadian General Social Surveys, Berlin Aging Study, Health and Retirement Study, Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Americans' Changing Lives Survey, and Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
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The potentially sporadic and irregular nature of this work means that time diaries tend to yield more accurate measures at the aggregate level while stylized questions asking about work over a typical day or week allow more accuracy at the individual level. The open format of a time diary reveals potentially unknown types of activities; hence, stylized questions could be guided by time diary findings to focus on a wide range of work activities.
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McCulla Bureau of Economic Analysis This paper describes how time-use data can be used to produce estimates that account for nonmarket household production in the national income and product accounts. The paper discusses the structural framework of satellite accounts and how nonmarket production fits into that framework.
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Diaries are typically collected for the entire day, so that the entire day's activities are accounted for, in contrast to other methods, such as stylized questions or experiential sampling studies, that do not collect information on the entire day. With time diaries, respondents are also able to designate what the most important activity was during a time frame if the respondent was simultaneously engaged in more than one activity.
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The paper concludes that time diary methods produce rather reliable accounts of time use at the aggregate level. The paper also summarizes validity studies of time-use data collected from time diaries.
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The paper also discusses the general strengths and limitations of these studies in comparison with other methods for collecting time-use data, specifically, time diaries and stylized questions. One strength of the experience sampling method is that it can be used to study psychological states during activities throughout the day.
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The Eurostat pilot study collected diaries from those at least 11 years old. A 1989 Italian study collected time diaries for children aged 3 and older, and a Bulgarian study in 1988 had no lower age limit.
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Finally, the paper describes theoretical implications of designing questionnaires to be included with time diary studies. The paper suggests that to understand nonmarket work, it is important to collect information on household stocks of capital and on consumption of market services that may substitute for household labor.
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