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Time Use Survey
Social
statistics Division ,
Education and Social Statistics Branch ,
Education and Cultural Statistics Section
Tel: (66)(2) 281-0333 ext. 1916 Fax: (66)(2) 2825861
Director: seducult@nso.go.th
The
National Statistical Office conducted the first time use survey in August
2001. Main objective is to study how different time use between men
and women in activities for 1 day (24 hours). Time use data will enhance
the quality of implementing and monitoring government policy and to
improve at a better estimate of the value GDP in the System of National
Accounts (SNA 1993).
The Content
of Statistical Tables
DEFINITIONS Activity
An activity
refers to whatever an individual spends time on is considered an activity
in the time use context irrespective of the motivation , the intended
beneficiary or the outcome of the event. Including resting or doing
nothing
Types of
time use
Four main
categories of activities on which people spend their time ; as following
:
Necessary Time
Includes activities which serve basic physiological needs such
as sleeping , eating , personal care, health and hygiene , etc.
Contracted Time
Includes
work and education. Activities within this category have explicit contracts
which control the periods of time in which they are performed. These
activities , therefore , constrain the distribution of other activities
over the rest of the day , such as employment services for income ,
attend the class , homework , etc.
Committed Time
Describes activities to which a person has committed him / herself
because of previous acts or behaviours or community participation such
as doing housework , volunteer work , care for children in own household,
etc.
Free Time
Free time is the amount of time left when the previous three types of
time have been taken out of a person’s day. Includes activities which
serve for personal recreation or leisure such as viewing television
, reading , sport , using computer , socializing, etc.
OBJECTIVES :
1. To study
pattern of time use in people’s diary life (24 hours)
2. To determine
whether difference in time use between difference population groups
3. To provide
data to improve significantly the estimates of the contribution to GDP
within the national accounts 4. To provide
time use data for Thailand internationally comparable at the level of
international activities classification (ICATUS 1997)
ITEMS :
1. Basic
characteristics of population by sex , age , education and marital status 2. Amount
of time persons aged 10 years and over spend in 24 hours 3. Wages
evaluation for doing own housework
METHOD
OF DATA COLLECTION :
Combination
of direct interview and self-completed questionnaires
SURVEY
INSTRUMENTS :
1. Household
and individual questionnaires 2. Full
time question for activities from wake up until sleep
Recording Activities :
Main
activity was recorded in open time interval 24 hours
Context
Variables :
What
purpose , where and with whom
TIME
SAMPLE :
All days of the
week were covered by assigning one day to each respondent. The enumerator
will try to distribute reference days so that each day of the week is
uniformly allocated to total number of respondents.
SAMPLE DESIGN :
Stratified
Two – Stage Sampling was used in the survey from sample private households
in every provinces , whole kingdom. All member of household aged 10
years and over will be collected information by direct interviewing
and self-completed method. There are all 26,058 sampling households
or 62,500 persons. RESPONSE RATE
:
93.8 percent
of sample respondents
ACTIVITY
CLASSIFICATION :
10 MAJOR GROUPS
(90-2 digits) in using and adapting the ICATUS 1997
Group1 Employment
for establishments
Group
2 Primary production activities not for establishments
Group 3 Services
for income and other production of goods not for establishments
Group 4 Household
maintenance , management and shopping for own household
Group 5 Care
for children , the sick , elderly and disabled for own household
Group 6 Community
services and help to other households
Group 7 Learning
Group 8 Social
, cultural and recreational activities
Group 9 Mass
media use
Group 10 Personal
care and self-maintenance
SURVEY REPORT :
1. Preliminary
Survey Report (Whole Kingdom).
2. Completely
Survey Report (Whole Kingdom and region).
THE NEXT SURVEY
:
To be carried
out in 2004.
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