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2. An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use

Although time use has received much attention by social scientists as an index of resource allocation and social relations across groups, only a few studies have carefully assessed the relative strengths and weaknesses of the existing methods of measuring time use: time diary (TD), stylized (S) resp...

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Published in:Sociological methodology 2003-08, Vol.33 (1), p.19-54
Main Authors: Juster, F. Thomas, Ono, Hiromi, Stafford, Frank P.
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