Research Catalog

Title

A day with the Dutch : time use in the Netherlands compared with 15 other European countries / Mariëlle Cloïn.

Author

Cloïn, Mariëlle.

Publication

The Hague, The Netherands : The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Netherlands. Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau.

Description

60 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"How do people in the Netherlands use their time, and are there any differences compared with other countries? In this report, time use in the Netherlands and fifteen other European countries is described, compared and placed in an international comparative perspective. The comparison is based on time use surveys which were carried out in accordance with a comparable design in all the countries, including the Netherlands. Since this is the first time that the Netherlands has been part of an international comparative study based on the Harmonized European Time Use (HETUS) data, the focus will be mainly on the Netherlands. Special attention is given to gender differences in time use. In addition, the report explores the extent to which countries show differences or resemblances in time use patterns, and in particular with which countries Dutch time use corresponds. Time can be spent on a broad range of activities each day. The activities considered in this report are personal care (sleeping, eating), obligations (study, paid work, household tasks and childcare), free time and travel. In which countries do people have busy lives, and where do people have the largest amount of free time? How are tasks divided between men and women? Which countries are alike in terms of the time use of the population considered? These and other questions form the subject of this report. "--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Time management > Netherlands
• Time management > European Union countries
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Zeiteinteilung
• Europa
• Niederlande

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-57)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A day with the Dutch. Do the Dutch have a distinctive time use pattern? ; Macro-level factors and cross-country differences in time use ; Dutch time use research ; Data, constraints and reading instructions. -- TIme use in daily life in the Netherlands and fifteen other European countries. How much time? ; The general time use pattern ; Personal care ; Total workload (obligations) ; Free time: social activities and relaxation ; Travel. -- Time use and gender differences. He does, she does ; Paid work ; Household tasks ; Childcare ; Total workload for women and men (the combination of obligations). -- Same amount of time, different time use patterns?. Time use patterns across countries considered simultaneously ; An analysis of the time use patterns of the population in sixteen European countries ; Women's time use pattern cross-nationally ; Men's time use pattern cross-nationally. -- Concluding remarks.

ISBN

• 9789037706062
• 9037706061

OCLC

793224060

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Harvard Library