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Time use

Time use statistics give information about how New Zealand residents aged 12 and over spend their time.

It includes details about the proportions of time people spend on paid and unpaid work, leisure, and personal care, and what time of day they do them.

Information includes the actual hours that people spend doing paid work, health maintenance activites, voluntary work, education, and travel.

It also gives details about the characteristics of people doing voluntary work and caring activities (eg unpaid childcare, helping relatives).


Reports & articles

Time Use Scoping Paper - paper
New Zealand Time Use Survey 1999 - article
Time use - time for culture - article
Gender and unpaid work: findings from the Time Use Survey - article
Measuring unpaid work in New Zealand 1999 - article
Using Time Use Data - article

Related Links

Developments

Time Use Survey: 2008–2009


Related datasets

Time Use


Website

International Association for Time Use Research


Tables

Time use statistics (1999)
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