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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | What Did You Do in the Last 24 Hours? -Ashwini Deshpande

What Did You Do in the Last 24 Hours? -Ashwini Deshpande

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published Published on Dec 18, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 24, 2020

-TheIndiaForum.in

Some reflections on India’s first Time Use Survey in historical perspective

The first nation-wide survey of the time spent by men and women on various activities during all 24 hours of the day brings out the gender inequalities in the work that each of them do.

“Now tell us some particulars relating to time use for each household member of age 6 years and above from 4:00 AM yesterday to 4:00 AM today”: This is how enumerators from the National Sample Survey (NSS) gathered details of what individuals did with their time in 30-minute slots over a 24-hour period for India’s first Time Use Survey, the report of which was released recently (National Statistical Office 2020)1.

Sociologists, economists, demographers and public health researchers are often interested in knowing what our typical day looks like. In particular, they would like to know how much time we allocate to specific activities, broadly defined. They are not peeping toms looking to check our browser histories; neither are they interested in salacious details on how much time we spend whispering/texting sweet nothings to beloveds. Nor are they human CCTVs aiming to monitor every step that we take in our private lives.

Time use research is the analysis of a detailed account of all activities an individual carries out during a 24 to 48-hour period. The activities are categorized into broad buckets to capture (domestic and unpaid) work, (economically remunerative) employment and leisure (divided into broad categories of sleep, grooming, socializing etc.). Researchers usually analyze hundreds of “diaries” that are basically activity logs of respondents, either written by respondents themselves or collected in an interview format by enumerators. These simple and apparently mundane logs have been extensively used by a variety of researchers to understand specifics of individual behaviour that underlie societal patterns in work and public health.

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TheIndiaForum.in, 18 December, 2020, https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/what-did-you-do-last-24-hours


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