The Routledge International Handbook of Time Use Themes and Applications Time Use Research Volume 2

Introduction: The versatility of time use diary data

Michael Bittman and Oriel Sullivan

Section 1: Scholarly and policy applications in the Global North

1. The Shape of Work

Pierre Walthéry

2. Time Devoted to Unpaid Work: Evolution Over the Life Course

Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz

3. Gender Convergence in Housework

Oriel Sullivan and Jonathan Gershuny

4. Comparative Evidence on Policies Promoting Gender Equality in Domestic Labour

Jennifer Hook

5. The Gender Trumps Money Controversy

Michael Bittman

6. Housework time and spousal resources: It is about gender!

Oriel Sullivan

7. Housework Now Takes Much Less Time: 85 Years of US Rural Women’s Time Use

Teresa Harms and Jonathan Gershuny

8. The Future of Unpaid Work: Estimating the Effects of Automation on Time Spent on Housework and Care Work in Japan and the UK

Ekaterina Hertog et al.

9. Advancing Gender Equality in Parenting: The Remaining Challenge

José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal, Almudena Sevilla and Jorge Velilla

10. The Effects of Having Children on Parents’ Daily Lives and over the Life Course: What Time Use Research Reveals

Lyn Craig

11. Conceptualizing Parenting Time: The Implications of Examining ‘Childcare’ Time versus other Time with Children

Melissa Milkie and Kei Nomaguchi

12. Daily Time Use of Dual-earner Couples with Young Children and Their Work-Life Balance in Korea from 2009 to 2019

Sarah Rhee and Ki Soo Eun

13. Unpaid Caregiving to Adults: The Importance and Challenges of Using Time Use Data

Maria Stanfors and Sean Urwin

14. Children's Time Use

Michael Bittman et al.

15. Child and Adolescent Time Use and Well-Being Outcomes: Current Debates and Evidence

Pablo Gracia

16. Children’s Time, Cramming Vs. Gaming

Seung-Eun Cha and Kamila Kolpashnikova

17.  Trends in Growing Older: Women's and Men's Time Use in the United States, 1965-2018

Sarah Flood et al.

18.  Balance in Time Use and Life Satisfaction of Older People in Korea

Jiweon Jun

19. Gendered Trends in Leisure Time from 2003 to 2021

Liana C. Sayer and Hope Xu Yan

20. Speed up Society?

Oriel Sullivan and Jonathan Gershuny

21. Dutch Workers and Time Pressure: Household and Workplace Characteristics

Tanja van der Lippe

22. Population Sleep: The Historical Evolution of Modern Concepts

Lisa Matricciani

23. Cross-National Historical Change in Sleep Durations and Timing

Juana Lamote de Grignon Perez et al.

24. Daily Metabolic Expenditures: Estimates from US, UK and Polish Time-Use Data

Teresa Harms, David Berrigan and Jonathan Gershuny

25. Social Organisation and the Overweight/Obesity Epidemic in Developed Countries

Michael Bittman and Jonathan Gershuny

26. Changes in Health-Related Daily Activities Across the UK Pandemic

Oriel Sullivan, Juana Lamote de Grignon Perez and Margarita Vega-Rapun

27. Harnessing Technology to Promote Active Travel: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding its Role in Daily Physical Activity

Teresa Harms, Doina Olaru and Jonathan Gershuny

28. Time Use Data for Energy Demand Modelling

José Luis Ramírez-Mendiola, Máté János Lőrincz and Jacopo Torriti

29. Synchronising Time for Social Connection and Civic Participation

Julie L. Rose

30. The Public Face of Women’s Friendship: Work, Synchronous Time and Gender Equality

Jennifer G. Wilkinson

Section 2: Scholarly and policy applications in the Global South

31. Time-Use Data: A Resource for Evidence-Based Policy Formulation and Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring

Sharita Serrao

32. Towards a More Comprehensive Estimation of the Labour Force: Accounting for Subsistence Production, Informal Employment and Unpaid Family Labour

Indira Hirway

33. Employment, Unemployment and Education in Developing Countries: Insights from Time-Use Data

Sripad Motiram

34. Gender, Household Division of Labour and Time Allocation of Women and Men

Maria S. Floro

35. The Interference of Unpaid Domestic and Care Work with Paid Work and Men’s and Women’s Earnings

Xiao-yuan Dong and Liangshu Qi

36. Women's Time Poverty in Turkey

Ozge Ozay

37. Assessing the Impact of Public Investments

Mungunsuvd Terbish and Maria S. Floro

Biography

Michael Bittman is Emeritus Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He has chaired United Nations expert committees on time use research and served as President of the International Association for Time Use Research from 2005 to 2013. 

Oriel Sullivan is a Professor and Co-Director in the ESRC-funded Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR), home of the Multinational Time Use Study, at the Institute of Social Research, University College London. She was jointly responsible for the UK 2014–2015 Harmonised European Time Use Survey and the CTUR ELiDDI online diary design.

"This remarkable two-volume handbook demonstrates the unique value of time use data for addressing today’s most pressing social and policy challenges—from gender equality and care to health, energy, leisure, work and economic well-being. It combines methodological rigor with breadth of application. By bringing together leading voices from around the world, it solidifies the importance of time use research for evidence-based policymaking. I hope it serves as a catalyst for new generations of research and action."

Ugo Lachapelle, President of the International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR) and Full Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Tourism, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada