Time Use Survey 2009-10

Collecting The Data

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I am enjoying your beautiful city, andI am very pleased to be able to share experiences

with you.

我很喜欢你们美丽的城市 , 同时我很高兴能和你们一起分享我们工作

的经验 .

Time Use Survey overview

The first New Zealand survey was conducted in 98/99

The Time Use Survey is scheduled to run every 8 to 10 years

The current 2009-10 Time Use Survey:-

- was in the field from September 2009 to August 2010

- it is aiming to achieve 8,500 respondents

- the first results will be available in June 2011

Time Use Survey Research QuestionsWork life balance: How do people divide their time between paid work, unpaid work, family and leisure?

How do people schedule their paid work and where do they do it?

How socially connected are people with their family, friends, from inside and outside their household?

How much does unpaid work contribute to the New Zealand economy?

How do people spend their leisure time?

Who’s caring for whom, for how much time and where?

Information That We WillGet From The Time Use Survey

We will be able to value unpaid work

How much time people spend- on childcare- on travel, and how they travel- on exercising and who does it- with their family

How long people sleep and how they schedule it

Information on work-life balance

Time spent in school and other types of education

Unpaid work patterns among different New Zealanders

When people work

Compare the new data with the 98/99 Time Use Survey

How people complete their time use survey

The survey is made up of- a household questionnaire (HQ),- a personal questionnaire (PQ) and- a diary

The household and personal questionnaires are completed by interviewers electronically and make up the electronic questionnaire (EQ)

The householders fill out the Diaries

The Interview processFirst visit

• Interviewer conducts Household Questionnaire• Hands out up to 2 diaries to different people in

the household and arranges a date to return to collect them

Second visit: when diaries are complete• Does Personal Questionnaire• Goes through diary to check that it is complete• Goes through diary asking the diary interview

questions on each page

First Visit:Household Questionnaire (HQ)

Interviewers conduct a household questionnaire

They collect information on:• Everyone’s relationships in the household i.e. husband,

sister, brother etc., and • Age, Sex, Ethnicity, Income• Household ownership status• Use of paid services for the household

Second Visit: Personal Questionnaire (PQ)

Is collected by the interviewers when they return to the household to collect the diary

Collects information on various topics includingunpaid work activities in the previous 4 weeks

What’s written in the diary

People write down for each point during 48 hours:

• the main thing they were doing

• anything else they were doing at the same time

• where they were or how they were travelling

• who they were with

What’s written in the diary – continued...

The Interviewer’s query:• who they do things for • whether they are responsible for the care of a

child or an adult• whether they are doing paid work and

They fill in any gaps

Non Household Favour

Non Household Favour

Things that worked well in the collectionFace-to face interviewer training by experts, and a “home study” for interviewers

It was not too hard to get respondents to participate

Older people loved the survey - someone to talk to

Those doing voluntary work liked it being recorded

Children felt included

Having a diary example page, and having another children's example page

Having the diary start time as 4am was a relief to respondents – they could start with something nice and easy - recording "sleep"

Things that could be improved next timeSome interviewers were not confident on the purpose of the survey

Having 12 year olds in the survey(maybe we get parental approval before interviewing a child)

Interviewers needed more training on the more complex aspects of the diaries, for example:-- the “alone” column for “who else was with you”(hard to explain that it was what each respondent perceived - could have 2 people each seeing same situation differently) - what to do with activities that took less that 5 minutes- how to record multi activities (some interviewers assumed there was a priority for some types of activities, since there are only 2 columns for activities)

some respondents didn't like the intrusiveness of the diaries

Handling the paper diaries, for example - some got lost

There could have been a thank you letter to respondents at the end(because of the high respondent burden)

Thank you

非常感谢