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February 2002, Vol. 125, No. 2

Measuring time use in households with more than one person

Anne E. Winkler
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy Administration, Department of Economics, University of Missouri–St. Louis.

The U.S. Government’s first-ever national time-use survey will collect time diary data from one respondent per household, forgoing the opportunity to provide information about how nonmarket time is allocated between husbands and wives; Canada’s General Social Survey, similar in approach, uses stylized questions to elicit that very information.

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