Time budget research

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The time budget research is a method in the context of the sociology of time , to be detected with the amount of time people use for a particular activity (or inactivity) within a period of time. At its core, the "time budget method" is an instrument for reconstructing the daily routine of respondents.

The recording and analysis of the time budget of the population have long been one of the methods of social science studies. They replace self-disclosure, which is always burdened with problems of self-perception, memory and self-assessment. At the same time, however, there are problems in recording people's time use in a protocol, especially when the respondents are children.

High financial, time and personnel expenditure prevented the methodically indicated dissemination of this survey method. A current field in which their application is becoming increasingly urgent is the recording of the actual temporal use of digital media (development of dependencies up to non-substance-related, outpatient or inpatient treatment requiring addiction).

The Marienthal study was an important pioneer in time budget research .

Web links

• International Association for Time Use Research
• Research Network on Time Use
• Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): data on the use of time. Retrieved December 11, 2017.