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Time Use surveyRepublic of Moldova

UNECE Work Session on Gender statistics, 12-15 March 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

The aims

To provide information on how people spend their time: what they do, how much time they spend for some activities: where, when and with whom.

Time use survey was conceived as important source of gender statistics issues:

TUS in Moldova is organized and conducted according to

the National Program on Ensuring Gender Equality 2010-2015.


Survey methodology

International standards:

Guide to Producing statistics on Time Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work, UN, New York, 2005;

Harmonised European Time Use Surveys, 2008, guidelines.

Moldova:Not in a fully compliance with the Harmonised European

Time Use Survey (HETUS)


Survey methodology

Population

Accordingly to HETUS:

Resident population of the country living in private households (at domestic addresses);

Persons aged 10 years and above.


Survey methodology

Sample

According to HETUS:

All members of the household should be included in the sample. To make it possible to analyse intra-household dependencies.

Moldova:(!) Only one household member is selected for TUS aims (to fill

in the Diary). For selection is used the criterion of the “closest birthday” after the reporting/survey day.

The sample size is of 15600 households.


Survey methodology

Number of diary days

According to HETUS:

To use two diary days, i.e. one weekday (Monday-Friday) and one weekend-day (Saturday or Sunday). To get information about intra-personal variation.

Moldova:

(!) Only one diary day is selected: either one weekday, or one weekend-day.


Survey methodology

Selection of diary days and coverage of the year

According to HETUS:

Diary days/dates should be allocated to households/individuals by a controlled random procedure. Selection of the weekdays and weekend-days must be made uniformly for assuring the representativeness of the data.

The survey days/dates should be representative of, and cover a full 12-month period, i.e.365 consecutive days, preferably including holidays (like Christmas and New Year).


Survey methodology

Selection of diary days and coverage of the year

MoldovaTUS is conducted during the period June 1st, 2011 – May 31st, 2012. Sample design ensures the representativeness of the data for weekdays and weekend-days.The survey fieldwork is spread over 12 consecutive months: a certain number of households are surveyed every day.Selected household and the selected respondent participate only one time during 12 months - each household/respondent has one survey day.

(!) The designated date cannot be changed nor by the interviewer nor by the household.


Survey methodology

Survey forms: household and Individual questionnaires

According to HETUS:

Household Questionnaire

Individual Questionnaire for persons aged 10 years and over

Moldova: (!) Individual Questionnaire for persons aged 15 years and

over.(!) All core questions are comprised.


Survey methodology

Survey forms: Diaries

According to HETUS:

To use the Adult/Child Diary (instructions, an example for adults, an example for children and a common set of recording sheets):

Time slots: 10-minute time slots. Main activity column: What were you doing? Secondary activities column: What else were you doing? “Location: column: Where were you? “With whom” column: Were you alone or together with

somebody you know?UNECE Work Session on Gender statistics, 12-15 March 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

Survey methodology

Survey forms: Weekly schedule of working time

According to HETUS:

To use Weekly schedule of working time for persons aged 15 years and over which worked during the reference period/week.

Moldova:

(!) It is not used


Survey methodology

The activity classification list HETUS: The recommended Activity coding list should be

used for coding main and secondary activities. 0 - Personal care 1 - Employment 2 - Study 3 - Household and family care 4 - Voluntary work and meetings 5 - Social life and entertainment 6 - Sports and outdoor activities 7 - Hobbies and computing 8 - Mass Media 9 - Travel and unspecified time use

Moldova: It is adopted.UNECE Work Session on Gender statistics, 12-15 March 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

Why TUS didn’t follow the all HETUS recommendations?

The limited financial and human resources. It wasn’t created a separated Unit.

To not increase interviewers/supervisors burden: The fieldwork is carried out by the same personnel involved

in two other continuous surveys, LFS and HBS: 150 interviewers; 51 controllers/supervisors; 5 persons in the Labour Market Statistics Division in the

NBS Head Office


What are the main problems?

Coding issues

The coding of the diary is manually performed by the regional survey supervisors.

Problems with monitoring supervisors work; Little accuracy in the coding; Necessity to come back to check daily diaries, to read

the original description and to correct coding errors; It takes a lot of time for checking and data processing.


Survey results: Summer, 2011

Structure of one day (all days)

Men

45%

36%

19%

Personal care

Employment, study, household and family care, voluntary work and meetings, travel

Social life and entertainment, spotsand outdoor activities, hobbies and computing, mass media

Women

46%

38%

16%

Personal care

Employment, study, household and family care, voluntary work and meetings, travel

Social life and entertainment, spotsand outdoor activities, hobbies and computing, mass media



On average per surveyed population, all days


Time use during one day, all respondents

2,2

5,4

0,5

1,7

0,2 0,2

1,71,1

10,8

3,73,1

0,3

1,6

0,5 0,4

2,11,4

10,9

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Personal care Employment Household andfamily care

Voluntary workand meetings

Social life andentertainment

Sports andoutdooractivities

Hobbies andcomputing

Mass Media Travel andunspecified

time use

hours

Women Men


On average per person engaged in these activities, all days


Time use during one day

10,8

6,9

5,6

2,0 2,21,6

2,0 2,2

1,5

10,8

8,2

3,6

2,42,1 2,2 2,4 2,5

1,7

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

10,0

12,0

Personal care Employment Household and

family care

Voluntary work

and meetings

Social life and

entertainment

Sports and

outdoor activities

Hobbies and

computing

Mass Media Travel and

unspecified time

use

hours

Women Men




Time use by age groups

3,4 3,5

7,0

7,7

4,4

2,8

7,1

8,2

6,0

2,5

7,78,2

5,9

3,2

6,9

8,6

5,4

3,4

6,7

8,4

5,8

4,0

5,0

7,4

6,0

4,8

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Women Men Women Men

Employ ment Household and family care

hours

10-14 y ears 15-24 y ears 25-34 y ears 35-44 y ears 45-54 y ears 55-64 y ears 65 y ears and over


Time use by marital status of women

11,7

7,2

3,8

2,0 2,21,8

2,5 2,51,7

10,3

7,0

6,2

1,7 1,6 1,51,2

2,01,5

11,3

6,1 5,7

2,33,0

1,4 1,3

2,4

1,4

10,9

6,9

4,8

2,0 1,7 1,5 1,3

2,21,6

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

10,0

12,0

14,0


family care

Voluntary work

and meetings

Social life and

entertainment

Sports and

outdoor

activities

Hobbies and

computing


unspecified time

use

hours

Unmarried Married Widowed and not married Divorced and not married



Time use by marital status of men

11,7

7,1

2,92,4

2,02,5 2,8

2,41,8

10,4

8,4

3,7

2,2 2,1 2,01,3

2,41,7

11,2

7,4

4,8

2,33,0

2,0

2,9 3,0

1,5

10,6

8,8

3,0 2,7

1,81,2 1,3

2,8

1,6

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

10,0

12,0

14,0


family care

Voluntary work

and meetings

Social life and

entertainment

Sports and

outdoor

activities

Hobbies and

computing


unspecified time

use

hours

Unmarried Married Widowed and not married Divorced and not married




Time use by women aged 18-49 years

10,6

7,8

4,3

1,72,0

1,7 1,82,1

1,6

10,3

6,96,6

1,61,3

1,51,3

1,81,6

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

10,0

12,0




Sports andoutdoor activities


Mass Media Travel andunspecified time

use

hours

Women aged 18-49 y ears, without children up to 18 y ears Women aged 18-49 y ears, with children up to 18 y ears

Time use by men aged 18-49 years

10,9

8,1

2,63,1

2,1 2,12,6 2,4

1,9

10,4

8,6

3,32,8

1,61,9

1,2

2,21,7

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

10,0

12,0




Sports andoutdoor activities


Mass Media Travel andunspecified time

use

hours

Men aged 18-49 y ears, without children up to 18 y ears Men aged 18-49 y ears, with children up to 18 y ears




Time use for household and family care

2,4

1,1

1,3

2,5

3,8

0,8

2,1

1,31,3

1,0 1,0

2,82,7

0,91,0

1,9

0,0

0,5

1,0

1,5

2,0

2,5

3,0

3,5

4,0

4,5

Food management Household upkeep Making and carefor textiles

Gardening and petcare

Construction andrepairs

Shoping andservices

Childcare Help to and adultfamily membrs

hours

Women Men

Thank you for your attention!

Elena VATCARAU

Labour Market Statistics Division

National Bureau of Statistics

Republic of Moldova

[email protected]

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