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EUROSTAT
Directorate D: Single Market, Employment and Social statistics
Unit D-1: Labour market /

Doc.: Eurostat/D1/TUS/21/05

Working Group

Time Use Surveys

Meeting of 16-17 June 2005 in Luxembourg

National Plans for Time Use Surveys

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DOC D1/TUS/18/05Exchange of best practices and planning of the next wave of TUS

A.European Time Use Surveys – National Plans for the next wave of surveys 2008-2010

Information as of June 2005

Country / Foreseen schedule / Comment
Belgium / 2005 / After the survey of 2005, a next wave is foreseen in 2010-2011
Germany / National plan to be confirmed
Estonia / 2009/2010 / EE is planning a TUS by 2009/2010
Greece / 2008 / Likely date 2008 if funding if secured
Spain / 2007/2008 / ES plans a TUS probably in 2007/2008
France / 2008/2009
Italy / 2007/2008
Latvia / 2014 / Likely date for a TUS is 2014. A light diary survey may be organised in 2008/2009
Lithuania / Not before 2010 / Difficult to have precise plan at this moment. Depends on financial resources
Luxembourg / National plan to be confirmed
Hungary / 2008/2009 / Plan depends on financial resources
Netherlands / 2005/2006
Poland / 2014 / Likely in 2014. Impossible to have a precise plan at this moment
Slovenia / 2010 / Budget planning for surveys in done 3 years in advance. It is difficult to have a precise planning at this moment. TUS could be carried out by 2010
SlovakRepublic / SK participated in past meetings and prepared a draft based on HETUS guidelines, with a plan to carry out TUS in 2002-2004. The plan was not accepted.
Currently, there’s difficulty to raise funding for a TUS. There is plan to realise the survey and material has been prepared for this purpose, but it’s not sure if the plan will be realised.
Finland / 2009 / FI plans a TUS probably in 2009
Sweden / Not before 2010 / SE will probably not conduct a TUS before 2010
United Kingdom / 2010 / UK is doing a light diary survey in 4 months of 2005. Earliest time for a HETUS survey would be 2010
Bulgaria / Not before 2010 / It is likely that TUS will not be launched before 2010
Romania / 2008/2009
Turkey / 2006 / TR conducted a pilot survey in 1996. The next TUS will likely be in 2006
Norway / 2009

B. Summarised Information on National Time Use Surveys conducted during the period 1998-2004

B.1. Pocketbook Countries[1]

Country / Fieldwork period / Age of population covered / Sample size (Number of respondents) / Size of population, 1 000[2] / Comments
Belgium (BE) – Statistics Belgium and Vrije Universiteit Brussel / December 1998 – February 2000 / 12 – 95 / 8382 / 8755
Germany (DE) – Federal Statistical Office Germany / April 2001 – April 2002 / 10 – / 12655 / 73641 / Two weekdays, one weekend day was surveyed.
Estonia (EE) – Statistical Office of Estonia / April 1999 – March 2000 / 10 – / 5728 / 1290
France (FR) –INSEE / February 1998 – February 1999, except 4-18 August and 21 December – 4 January / 15 – / 15441 / 47231 / One diary day
Hungary (HU) – Hungarian Central Statistical Office / September 1999 – September 2000 / 15 – 84 / 10792 / 8206
Slovenia (SI) – Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia / April 2000 – March 2001
/ 10 – / 6190 / 1990
Finland (FI) – Statistics Finland / March 1999 – March 2000 / 10 – / 5332 / 4451
Sweden (SE) – Statistics Sweden / October 2000 – September 2001 / 20 – 84 / 3998 / 6538
United Kingdom (UK) – Office for National Statistics / June 2000 – September 2001 / 8 – / 10366 / 53016
Norway (NO) – Statistics Norway / February 2000 – February 2001 / 9 – 79 / 3211 / 3674 / Two consecutive days

B.2. Countries having carried out TUS not included in the Pocketbook due to methodological differences:

Country and institution / Fieldwork period / Age of population covered / Sample size (Number of respondents) / Size of population, 1000[3] / Comments
Denmark (DK) –Danish National Institute of Social Research / March, April, September and October 2001 / 16 – 74 / 2739 / 4298 / Two consecutive days surveyed
Netherlands (NL)- Central Bureau of Statistics / January 2001 – December 2001 / 12 - / 5717 / 13380 / Non-harmonised method
Portugal (PT) – Instituto Nacional de Estatistica / October, November 1999 / 15 - / 8133 / 9323 / Simplified survey
Romania (RO) – National Institute of Statistics / August, September 2000 / 10 - / 17751 / 20072 / Non-harmonised method

B.3. Countries not included in the Pocketbook and having carried out TUS or having a TUS in progress or recently completed[4]

Country and institution / Fieldwork period / Age of population covered / Sample size (Number of respondents) / Size of population,
10005 / Comments
Spain (ES) – Instituto Nacional de Estadistica / October2002–September2003 / 10+ / 46774 / 37636 / One day was surveyed.
Results available sinceJuly 2004
Italy (IT) –Instituto Nazionale di Statistica / April 2002-March 2003 / 3 years and older / 55760 / 57239 / One day was surveyed.
Results expected September 2005
Latvia (LV) –Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia / February - August 2003, October –November 2003 / 10+ / 3804 / 2115 / Results expected February 2005
Lithuania (LT) – Statistics Lithuania / January-December 2003 / 10+ / 4768 / 3454 / Results available since September 2004
Poland (PL) –Central Statistical Office / 1.06.2003-31.05.2004 / 15+ / 20264 / 30904 / Results expected April 2005
SlovakRepublic (SK) –Statistical Office of the SlovakRepublic
Bulgaria (BG) – National Statistical Institute / 15.10.2001-15.10.2002 / 7+ / 7622 / 7891 / Results available sinceJune 2003
Macedonia (FYROM) / 20.09. - 26.09.2004 / 10+ / 2030 / Fieldwork period was one week.
1676 households participated in the survey.
Results expected in the second half of 2005

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[1] Source: Pocket book on «How Europeans spend their time, Everyday life of women an men, June 2004

[2] Population statistics

[3] Source: Population statistics

[4]Source: Working Paper on “Comparable Time Use Statistics”, March 2005