Survey on Time Budgets

Identification

Name of the Operation.

Survey on Time Budgets

Operation Code.

010902 (Basque Statistics Plan)

Responsible body.

EUSTAT

Periodicity.

Every 5 years.

Kind of operation.

Sampling survey

Methodology according to the origin of the data.

Primary data collected directly by means of sampling

Objectives

The generic objective of the EPT is to provide political, economic and social agents, universities, private researchers and citizens in general, with detailed and up-to-date information on the economic, cultural, social, etc. behaviours of the resident population in the Basque Country, via time dedicated daily to each activity.

This generic aim may be specified through the following specific objectives:

• To know how daily time is distributed
• To draw the different types of days
• To describe which are the determinants of the use of time
• To determine at what moment in the day each activity is carried out
• To establish the differences by social groups
• To assess how much time is dedicated to each activity
• Describing the day-to-day life of the population and different social groups
• Contributing to the estimation of the Domestic Production Satellite Account

Coverage

Population:

The Population Universe for this survey is the resident population in families and 10 years of age or over.

Geographic scope:

The territorial area to which the survey refers to is the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country: Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.

Timeframe:

The time reference for the Time Use Survey, which includes both phases of the operation is 15 August of the year of surveys, wich is the date taken into account to calculate the population elevators.

Concepts and Definitions

Concepts and Definitions

Questionnaires

Questionnaires

Sample design

The surveying is based on a sample of 7,500 individuals aged 10 or over. It is based on a supplementary sample that eventually allows a fixed sample size to be reached (5,000 individuals), taking into account that there are units (individuals) who are not going to respond.

As far as the effective number of surveys is concerned, the 5,016 previous responder size was maintained, (which could be known as the net size), and was increased in line with the formula used in the European Social Survey [ n_gross=n_net/ (RR*ER)], that is to say, taking into account the response rate and the eligibility rate to calculate the necessary sample to obtain a net sample size. The net sample is finally 5,016 individuals.

The sample selection followed a two-stage design: the first consisted of selecting the census sections; and then in the sample framework defined by a Population Registry, the individuals to fill in the diary were selected at random, with equal probability of the persons in the section.

Even though in the two first surveys conducted with the individuals selected to fill in the diary were 16 or over, in 2003, the age was set at 10 years and over to adapt to the methodology proposed by the Guidelines for Harmonised European Time Use Surveys” (3.1 Sample Design).

Dissemination

Printed publications

• Title: Survey on Time Budgets. Results analysis
• Title: El uso del tiempo de la población ocupada. Booklet
• Title: Time Use Survey. 2013. Monographs:
  • Social determinants of daily life
  • The use of time for social participation activities
  • Analysis of the differences between sexes in the use of time
  • Occupation as a differentiating factor in the use of time in the CAE
  • Analysis of typologies of working daysbr
• EUSTAT Statistical Yearbook

Other ways of disseminating the data

• Internet: www.eustat.eus
• Statistical
• Press Releases
• Data-Bank