RMF2010 Abstracts
Session: 06 - Monday 5th July PM (15.30 - 17.30)
Title: Time Diary Research
Name: Jay Gershuny
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Abstract Details
Social scientists have long collected large randomly sampled records of individuals"/households", activities, locations, co-presence and affective states, in continuous day/week-long "time diaries". Formerly, analysis was limited to simple "time budget" accounts; now more exciting methods are emerging. Survey standardisation captures historical change and cross-national differences. We look at "lifestyles" by analysing activity sequences. We use the diary records of multiple simultaneous activities, personal interactions and affect ("enjoyment") measures, and compare the balance of inter- and independence among marital partners, parents and children, to provide rich and nuanced pictures of the experienced quality of daily life.
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