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Ignace Glorieux Joeri Minnen Theun Pieter van Tienoven 《Social indicators research》2011,101(2):281-287
During the last decade more and more time-use data were gathered on a household level in stead of on an individual level.
The time-use information of all members of the household provides much more insight in research fields that until now largely
used data gathered at the individual level. One of these research fields is the study of quality of life, based on the (quality)
time partners within a household spend together which in turn is often linked to studying the associations between the amount
of time spent together and relationship satisfaction. The amount of face-to-face spousal interaction is considered to be critically
important for marital quality and is assumed to be violated within dual-earner couples, especially those with women working
long hours. In this contribution we analyze the time-use of couples in the Belgian Time Use Surveys of 1999 and 2005. We identify
which activities couples do together and which they do apart, and what household characteristics predict couples’ together
time. Working times in general seem the most decisive factor influencing the amount of together time. The increased labor
market participation of women, on the other hand, seems not to be so much a threat for the time a couple spends together. 相似文献
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It is well-established that time spent with parents is beneficial for children’s development. However, time-use studies from
various countries consistently indicate that there are a substantial number of parents, especially fathers, who report spending
no time with their children. Much of the literature on parental time simply ignores these parents or assumes that they are
similar to other parents. Using data from the 2005 Canadian General Social Survey time-use survey, this study takes a closer
look at respondents who report spending 0 min with their children and asks whether they are simply an artifact of the data
or whether they have distinct social, economic and demographic characteristics. The findings indicate that while data anomalies
may partially explain the existence of this group, non-participants also differ in terms of their family, work, and demographic
characteristics. Both the methodological and substantive implications of these findings are discussed. 相似文献
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Brian O’Leary 《Social indicators research》2007,81(2):357-373
Durban, the busiest port and second largest industrial hub in South Africa, has a developmental vision that sees its residents living in ‚acceptably serviced housing’ and enjoying a ‚generally high quality of life that can be sustained’. This vision is in response to South Africa’s transitional aspirations to move from an inequitable apartheid state to a democratic society with greater socio-economic parity. Since 1998 the eThekwini Municipality, which is the local authority responsible for the city of Durban, has conducted annual surveys to monitor the changes in the quality of life of Durban’s people. Structured questionnaire interviews were administered in 14 300 dwellings between 1998 and 2005. The samples drawn each year were representative of the city’s demographics and covered a wide range of housing types. Results indicate that parity of life satisfaction between race groups is as far apart in 2005 as it was in 1998. The paper undertakes trend analysis, from a local government perspective, of key objective and subjective variables in the surveys. It identifies the domains that have the greatest impact on satisfaction with life, and reports the salient issues for black householders, who have the lowest level of life satisfaction.The Research Locale: Durban, which is a port city on the east coast of South Africa, has a population of over 3 million people. The population is comprised of the following groups: Asian (20%), black (68%), coloured (3%) and white (9%). It is Africa’s busiest port and is South Africa’s second largest industrial hub. It provides key trade linkages to Johannesburg, which is South Africa’s largest industrial hub. The major economic sectors are manufacturing, tourism, finance and transport. The complex topography is intersected by 19 rivers that flow to 98 kms of coastline. 相似文献
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Role diversity is an important feature of individuals’ social networks that is reflected in the amount of time spent in the
company of different role relationships. Time-use data is used to derive an index of dispersion measuring the diversity of
one’s social contact among different role relationships. Patterns of social engagement are specialized when large investments
of time are allocated to a small number of role relationships, while patterns are diverse when relatively equal amounts of
time are spent among all possible role relationships. Tobit estimation of models indicates significant social context, time-use,
and attitudinal effects on the diversity of role relationships. Findings indicate that role diversity is a complex phenomenon
shaped by one’s existing social context, individual preferences, and present constraints on the use of time. 相似文献
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In this paper, the data from the multi-purpose survey on household “Time Use” conducted by Istat (the Italian National Statistical
Institute) in 2002–2003 and the data from this same survey conducted in 1988–1989 will be analysed with the purpose of describing
the fathers’ daily participation in the domestic activities and of highlighting the changes that have taken place during the
14 years elapsed between the two survey editions. The analysis will be carried out using standard time-use data analysis’
tool, time budget tables and by applying a multi-variate regression model with the objective of separating the relative contribution
of the behavioural and structural factors to explain the variation observed.
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Dario BruzzeseEmail: |
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The article provides an overview of the development of the field of time use studies. It provides an intellectual history
charting the various interests that have shaped the growing applications of this broad social indicator. Recent applications,
reflected in this special issue, are (a) interpreting the meaning of leisure, time; (b) the social and environmental consequences
of affluence; and (c) non-market work, parenting and balance between work and family. New approaches to trends in average
leisure time have attempted to interpret the impact of social and technological change on the meaning of leisure. These approaches
suggest that the ‘economic emergence of women’ rather than the ‘IT revolution’ has been the more influential trend and that
being ‘busy’ may have replaced conspicuous idleness as the signifier of social status. These new forms of social organization
in advanced societies have also attracted a great deal of research on children’s use of time, parenting and work-family balance.
An important new application for time-use information has been in the study of ‘diseases of affluence’, the health consequences
of increasing sedentary activities, and over-eating, the environmental consequences of consumerism, all of which leads to
the need to reassess the economic significance of activities that occur beyond the market. A special feature of this article
is an extensive review of approaches to valuation (in dollars and cents) of the outputs of unpaid (non-market) work. The article
provides a framework for what activities it makes sense to value and the current ideas about ‘best practice’ methods of valuation. 相似文献
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Marcel van Egmond Janeen Baxter Sandra Buchler Mark Western 《Journal of Population Research》2010,27(3):147-168
This paper examines trends over time in attitudes to gender equality in Australia. We use data from repeated cross-sectional
surveys in Australia to investigate trends in beliefs about men’s and women’s work and family roles between 1986 and 2005.
We find that men are consistently more conservative than women, that younger cohorts tend to be less conservative than older
cohorts, but those born between 1960 and 1980 are more egalitarian on some issues than those born after 1980. There is also
evidence that the overall trend toward more egalitarian gender attitudes is most marked in Australia up until the mid-1990s
with the trend flattening and in some cases, even reversing after this period. The paper concludes that there is currently
a period of relative stability in gender attitudes in Australia, but with some tendency toward more conservative views. 相似文献
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Roger Patulny 《Social indicators research》2011,101(2):289-293
Social trust is an important phenomenon, but the influence of important time-based measures upon trust has not been examined.
Such measures include social contact and anti-social activity, such as television watching, which allows for the co-presence
of other people. This paper reports on associations between trust and weighted means of co-present ‘social’ time (defined
as time spent in various ‘social’ activities) and co-present time spent watching television, using the Australian Time Use
Survey, 2006. It finds that trust is associated with social time spent in the co-presence of ‘strangers’ predominately from
outside the household, and that TV watching in the co-presence of ‘familiars’—friends and family—is negatively associated
with trust. 相似文献
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We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79) from 1979 to 2002 and the Children of the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY) from 1986 to 2002 to describe the number, shape, and population frequencies of U.S. nonresident
father contact trajectories over a 14-year period using growth mixture models. The resulting four-category classification
indicated that nonresident father involvement is not adequately characterized by a single population with a monotonic pattern
of declining contact over time. Contrary to expectations, about two-thirds of fathers were consistently either highly involved
or rarely involved in their children’s lives. Only one group, constituting approximately 23% of fathers, exhibited a clear
pattern of declining contact. In addition, a small group of fathers (8%) displayed a pattern of increasing contact. A variety
ofvariables differentiated between these groups, including the child’s age at father-child separation, whether the child was
born within marriage, the mother’s education, the mother’s age at birth, whether the father pays child support regularly,
and the geographical distance between fathers and children. 相似文献
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The influence of wages on parents’ allocations of time to child care and market work in the United Kingdom 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Charlene M. Kalenkoski David C. Ribar Leslie S. Stratton 《Journal of population economics》2009,22(2):399-419
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own
and partner’s wages on parents’ provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find
that increases in partners’ wages increase women’s primary care on all days and decrease their market work on weekdays, while
increases in women’s own wages increase their market work on weekdays. There is little evidence that men’s time use responds
to changes in their own wages. However, an increase in men’s partners’ wages increases men’s passive child-care time on weekends
and reduces their market-work time on weekends.
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Leslie S. Stratton |
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Charlene M. Kalenkoski Karen S. Hamrick Margaret Andrews 《Social indicators research》2011,104(1):129-155
Time constraints, like money constraints, affect Americans’ well-being. This paper defines what it means to be time poor based
on the concepts of necessary and committed time and presents time poverty thresholds and rates for the US population and certain
subgroups. Multivariate regression techniques are used to identify the key variables associated with discretionary time and
time poverty. The data confirm the idea that individuals in households with children have less discretionary time and are
thus more likely to be time poor than those in households without children. Controlling for other household characteristics,
an additional child reduces a household adult’s daily discretionary time by 35 min. Surprisingly, while one might expect the
necessary and committed activities required of an individual to be less in a two-adult household with children than in a one-adult
household with children because child care can be shared, the data show that the presence of such a second adult only marginally
reduces the necessary and committed time burden of an individual household member. Perhaps even more surprisingly, household
income is not a statistically significant correlate of discretionary time or time poverty. 相似文献
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Paul A. Murtaugh 《Journal of Population Research》2010,27(2):63-73
I develop probabilistic interpretations for the United Nations’ 10-year population forecasts by comparing 1995 projections
for 212 countries to the population sizes reported for 2005. Errors in the estimation of the intrinsic rate of increase, presumably
caused by erroneous assumptions about birth, death and/or immigration rates, appear to be more consequential than errors based
on inaccurate estimation of the starting, or ‘jump-off’, population size. For only about 20% of the countries did the ‘actual’
2005 population size fall between the United Nations’ low- and high-variant projections. I propose prediction intervals for
country-specific population sizes 10 years in the future of the form [ Ni¢ (t+10) / k , k ·Ni¢ (t+10) ],[ N_i^{\prime} (t+10) / k , \, k \cdot N_i^{\prime} (t+10) ], where N
i
′(t + 10) is the medium-variant prediction for year t + 10 made in year t, and k is a number that varies with starting population size. Based on the 1995–2005 United Nations’ data, values of k giving 95% coverage range from 1.11 for countries with a population on the order of 109, to 1.45 for countries with a population of 105. 相似文献
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Individuals can be money poor, time poor or both. While income is the most used indicator of poverty, broader indexes including
non-monetary aspects of deprivation have been proposed and measured. As one such measure, our study focuses on the element
of deprivation arising from the time deficit of many working people. The usual poverty threshold is calculated as the amount
of income to buy the minimum required goods and services from the market. This minimum required purchase is greater for these
people since they have less time than the average person to produce some goods and services for themselves at home. So, they
need money to buy these in the market in order to maintain the same consumption. The income standard must be supplemented
to adequately measure actual poverty.
Time use data make it possible to establish time requirements and time availability and provide a measure of time poverty.
Using Canadian GSS 1998 data, and building on the work of Vickery (1977, ‚The time poor: A new look at poverty’, The Journal
of Human Resources 12(1), pp. 27-48) and of Douthitt (1993, ‚The inclusion of time availability in Canadian poverty measures’,
Time-Use Methodology: Toward Consensus (ISTAT, Roma), pp. 83–91), and our own previous study, we estimate time-adjusted poverty
thresholds and rates for single and dual parent Canadian families. As expected, we have found high incidence of time deficit
among the employed single parents with children. We make a case for the acceptance of a redefined poverty standard for such
time-deprived groups. 相似文献
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Jorge Castellá Sarriera Daniel Abs Ferran Casas Lívia Maria Bedin 《Social indicators research》2012,106(3):545-561
This paper’s main objective is to show relations between interest in media, perceived social support and adolescents’ personal
well-being. For this purpose, 1,589 Brazilian adolescents answered a questionnaire containing Cummins’ Personal Well-Being,
Vaux’s Social Support Appraisals and Casas’ interest in media scales. The media in study are: The Internet, computer games,
video games, computer, cell phone and television. For the data analysis this research used Structural Equation Modeling, a
statistical methodology based on the confirmation of hypotheses previously established by theoretical frameworks on data.
A final model of relations between media, support and well-being was obtained with a fit considered satisfactory by the literature.
Implications of media on adolescents’ well-being based on this model are considered. 相似文献
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Recent media and government reports suggest that immigrants are more likely to hold jobs with poor working conditions than
U.S.-born workers, perhaps because immigrants work in jobs that “ natives don’t want.” Despite this widespread view, earlier
studies have not found immigrants to be in riskier jobs than natives. This study combines individual-level data from the 2003-2005
American Community Survey with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on work-related injuries and fatalities to take a fresh look
at whether foreign-born workers are employed in more dangerous jobs. The results indicate that immigrants are in fact more
likely to work in risky jobs than U.S.-born workers, partly due to differences in average characteristics, such as immigrants’
lower English-language ability and educational attainment. 相似文献
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N. A. Hamilton C. A. Nelson N. Stevens Heather Kitzman 《Social indicators research》2007,82(1):147-163
Although many studies have linked sleep problems with symptoms of psychopathology, fewer studies have examined the relationship
between sleep and dimensions of psychological health as well as depression. To fill this gap, 502 community residents were
surveyed about sleep habits, symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as Ryff’s six dimensions of psychological well-being.
Using cut-offs suggested by epidemiological research, participants were classified as either optimal sleepers (those reporting
an average of 6 hours or less than 8.5 hours per night) or suboptimal sleepers (those sleeping less than 6 hours or 8.5 or
more hours per night). After controlling for demographic differences (i.e., sex, age, education, ethnicity, employment status,
marital status, presence of children), the Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) suggested that optimal sleepers reported
fewer symptoms of depression, and anxiety, and reported higher levels of environmental mastery, personal growth, positive
relations with others, purpose in life, and self acceptance. Differences between optimal sleepers and non-optimal sleepers
in depressive symptoms, positive relations with others, purpose in life and self-acceptance remained significant when people
with mild to moderate symptoms of depression were eliminated from the data set. These results are consistent with a theoretical
framework that defines sleep as a resource related to stress management and self-regulation. 相似文献
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The Chinese government conducted its first time use survey of the activities of Chinese individuals in 2008. Activities were
classified into three broad types, maintenance activities, subsistence activities and leisure activities. Time use patterns
were defined by an individuals’ time spent on maintenance, subsistence and leisure activities each day. We analyzed the time
use patterns of different population segments, such as gender, region, age, employment status, and income. Rural residents
spend 2 h per day more on SA than urban residents. Five of the employment status categories; migrant workers, full-time students,
retirees, the unemployed, and Home-makers, each have unique time schedules. Moreover, time use patterns vary greatly between
the different age groups and different income levels. The relationships between the time spent on maintenance, subsistence,
and leisure activities were analyzed. Time spent on subsistence activities each day were negatively correlated with time spent
on maintenance and leisure activities. The time spent on maintenance activities was positively correlated with the time spent
on leisure activities. The ratio of time spent on maintenance, subsistence and leisure activities in China is compared with
that in Japan, America and New Zealand. A new term, Time Structure, was coined to describe the ratio of individual time spent
on maintenance, subsistence and leisure activities. The time structure in China is 60:24:16 and differs from the structures
found in the other countries examined. 相似文献
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The changes concerning the household’s structure have contributed to the coming out of new households’ forms: in particular
the “mobile” household is a type very interesting, because of dimensions that the family commuting is achieving in Italy.
The Multipurpose survey on “Households, Social subjects and Childhood condition” carried out in June 1998, has allowed for
the first time to collect useful information to describe not only the forms that this phenomenon has in Italy but also those
subjects being more frequently involved by it. 相似文献
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Nick Parr 《Population research and policy review》2010,29(3):319-338
This paper examines childlessness in later adult life among males in Australia. The data are from 1,610 males aged 45–59 interviewed
in 2001 for Wave 1 of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, a large-scale, nationwide, longitudinal
survey of the household population. Staged logistic regression models are used to identify the early lifecourse antecedents
of a man being childless in later life and the mediating effects of work-related variables and duration of union. The results
show that the father’s and mother’s occupations, the level and type of education, and birthplace are important early lifecourse
antecedents of whether a man is childless in later life. The lengths of time a man has been in married and cohabiting and
his current occupation are found shown to have significant relationships with whether he is childless. 相似文献