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Time Budgets as Social Indicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jonathan Gershuny
Jonathan Gershuny
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Nuffield College, Oxford
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The social indicators movement sought to establish a system of social accounting that was broader than the money-based national income accounts. Specialized studies of social trends in housing, health, crime, and so forth could be successful in illuminating a specific area of social life, but together they became obstacles to the achievement of the ideal of an integrated set of social accounts. Even if crime and housing have a relationship the statistics generated within each domain are together incommensurable.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 419 - 424
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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NOTES

1 Still the best introduction to the history and best practice in time budget research is provided by a Szalai The Use of Time, Mouton, The Hague, 1973.Google Scholar

2 For detailed discussion of the trends that emerge from the data, see ‘Changing Patterns of Time Use, UK 1961 to 1984’, Gershuny, J. and Jones, S., Sociological Review Monographs 22, 1987.Google Scholar

3 This literature is critically reviewed in Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont, Economic Evaluations of Unpaid Work, International Labour Office, Geneva 1987.Google Scholar

4 The model briefly outlined here is discussed in more detail in ‘Technical Change and the Work-Leisure Balance’, Technology and Economic Progress ed. Silberston, Aubrey, London: Macmillan, 1989.CrossRefGoogle Scholar