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Links to Guidelines on Time Use:

Links to Guidelines on Time Use:

Published:
Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work, United Nations Statistical Division, New York (PDF, 8MB) - United Nations Statistics Division

Guidelines on harmonised European Time Use Surveys, Eurostat, 2004 (PDF 2MB) - Eurostat

For overviews on methodology for time-use considerations:

The measurement of women and men's time: basic concepts (PowerPoint presentation) - Italian National Statistical Institute

Measuring how people spend their time: a time-use survey design (PDF 70kb) - US Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Time Use Survey Methodology (HTML) - United Kingdom 

Manuals on Time Use Surveys (HTML) - United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) 
Allocation of time and time use (HTML) - United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD)
This website includes information about standards and methods on the allocation of time and time use. In the Methodological profiles, one can compare selected survey features and practices for the following countries: Australia, Benin, Canada, Dominican Republic, Finland, Guatemala, India, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Oman, Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Thailand.

Other Publications:

International journal on time use: EIJTUR

Situation and Development of Gender Statistics, Kyrgyzstan, 2000 (PDF 0.7MB)

 Around the Clock- Findings from the New Zealand Time Use Survey (1998-99), Statistics New Zealand, 2001 (PDF 3.5MB) (HTML)

Days of our lives: time use and transitions over the life course, Statistics Canada (HTML)