Time Use Survey (2002-2003; 2009-2010)

Summary

Strengths: The last issue is based on the previous Time Use Survey (2002-2003) and the new guidelines for the European Harmonised Time Use Surveys (Eurostat) which were elaborated by a working group in 2007 and 2008 in order to simplify and improve comparability among countries. These surveys aim at contributing: - to family and gender equality policies (relationship between the division of labour at home, increase of the participation of women in the workplace, reconciliation of paid work demands and family life, better management of children, disabled and chronically ill care) - to working time policies (effective working times, new forms of jobs and working conditions, flexibility of working relations) - to policies for the elderly (estimation of the non-market, unpaid work related to attention and care, social participation and integration into daily life) - to policies related to transport modes and behaviours and population mobility Weaknesses: This survey does not have a fixed time schedule at the moment, but in the next National Statistical Plan, a specific periodicity is assigned.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection occasional

Data gathering method
Face-to-face
Self administered questionnaire
Other: Activities Book to be filled out in a two-weeks period

Access to data

Conditions of access
On site free access to defined tables and microdata files for scientific purpose and elaboration. Notes for general use and for media: - Free access to general tables in Spanish and English: http://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/empleo/dacoempleo_en.htm - Anonymized microdata in Spanish and English: http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_emptiem.htm

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Aggregated and elaborated tables, as well as raw anonymised microdata

Formats available
ASCII zip file following a register design file (EXCEL format)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Round 1: Data collected from 2002 to 2003. Round 2: Data collected from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010. The sample consisted of 11,538 dwellings. Survey participants were aged 10 and over and lived in private households as their main family dwellings. The individuals were asked to fill out the Activities Book and the Individual Questionnaire, as well as a household questionnaire. This was a two-stage survey (census tracts, family dwellings) in which dwellings were surveyed on different week days. Particular attention was paid to weekend behaviours.

First year of collection
2002-2003

Stratification if applicable
Census tracts, dwellings and households

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Survey covers all of Spain

Age range
Household members aged 10 and over.

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
- It uses a statistical tool (time budget) as a time diary (or journal) to sequence and measure the duration of (all) activities carried out by one person during a specific period, generally 24 hours (work, professional or at home, education, free time) - Household Questionnaire (Personal information of members, Children care at home (under 10 years), Dependent adults, Income, Housekeeping) - Household Members Questionnaire (Economic activity, Occupation, Main and secondary work, Relation with the economic activity, Level of educational attainment, Country of birth and nationality, Health status, Civil status, Cohabiting, Children not living at home) - Activities Book (Main activity, Secondary activity (performed simultaneously), Activities carried out on Internet, Place where the activity is done, Other people participating in the activity, Mobile activities, Actual hours worked each reference day, Time of arrival and departure of each time slot for every work activity done) - Activities list requested (personal care, paid work, studying, household and family care, volunteer work and meetings, social life and recreation, sports and outdoor activities, hobbies and computers, media, journeys made and unspecified time use ) - Classification variables: time (day of the week, quarter of the year), personal (sex, age, educational level, health status, civil and cohabiting status, country of birth, nationality, economic activity, employment and working conditions), household (type, size, several people with needs – children, disabled -, income), place of residence (17 regions, plus 2 autonomous cities, municipal size)

Linkage

Standardisation
The 2009-2010 round deploys the same definitions as those existing in other similar Spanish surveys, such as the Household Budget Survey (HBS) and the Living Conditions Survey (LCS). Nevertheless, for the purpose of time comparability, the survey also included the definitions from the 2002-2003 Time Use Survey.

Possibility of linkage among databases
The Time Use Survey has been built to gain European comparability as methodology and questionnaires are fully harmonized under the umbrella of the European Working Group on Time Use Surveys. There is no linkage among European records, but data are comparable

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
- Attention paid to (all) definitions according to Spanish and European standards - Statistical procedures for estimates according to sampling criteria and errors - Procedures for solving sampling incidents (dwellings, households, interviewees) - Procedures to ensure data recording, valid values and codification, and centralized debugging and control applications - Files treated the missed value through deterministic imputation programs and control of intra- and inter-questionnaire inconsistencies - a Lack of response Report was completed for the Time Use Survey 2009-2010 (in Spanish) (http://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/empleo/evalfr.pdf)

Breaks
The Activities List is the harmonized one after the decision taken in 2008 by the Eurostat Task Force. Spain decided a) to reduce the initial list (from 192 to 115 activities) and b) to put into the list some ‘specific’ Spanish activities as a complement to the list. So, some breaks can be identified to gain adaptation to the Spanish time use context, but preserving flexibility for an European data comparability.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
The 2009-2010 round deploys the same definitions as those existing in other similar Spanish surveys, such as the Household Budget Survey (HBS) and the Living Conditions Survey (LCS). Nevertheless, the survey also uses the definitions from the 2002-2003 Time Use Survey for the purpose of time comparability.

Governance

Contact information
Social Statistics and Analyses Directorate
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spanish, Statistical Office, INE)
Castellana 183
28071 Madrid Spain Phone: 91 583 91 00
Email: infoine(at)ine.es
Url: http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type=pcaxis&path=%2Ft25%2Fe447&file=inebase&L=0

Timeliness, transparency
Data was collected from September 30, 2010 to July 14, 2011. There is no scheduled time for data publication.