Title: Analysis of Time Use Surveys on Work and Care in Japan
Abstract: This chapter analyses time use surveys carried out in Japan, focussing on
how people distribute their time between work and care. The Ministry of
Internal Affairs and Communications has carried out the Survey on Time
Use and Leisure Activities (Shakai Seikatsu Kihon Chōsa) every fi ve years
from 1976. Using this time survey, we fi rstly analyse how people spend
their time on paid and unpaid work by sex, age, household type, work status and household income. Secondly, we examine how the amount of time
Japanese women and men spent in child and elderly care changed between
1991 and 2006. Furthermore, we discuss how these changes may have been
infl uenced by childcare and elderly care policy in this period.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-09-13
Language: en
Type: article
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