A Time Use Survey is a statistical survey which aims to report data on how, on average, people spend their time.

Objectives

The objective is to identify, classify and quantify the main types of activity that people engage in during a definitive time period, e.g. a year, or a month etc.

See also

• Productive and unproductive labour
  Productive and unproductive labour
  Productive and unproductive labour were concepts used in classical political economy mainly in the 18th and 19th century, which survive today to some extent in modern management discussions, economic sociology and Marxist or Marxian economic analysis...
  
  
• Value added
  Value added
  In economics, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the value added per unit. Summing value added per unit over all units sold is total value added. Total value added is equivalent to Revenue less Outside Purchases...
  
  
• Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive
  Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive
  The U.S. Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive is a project to store, preserve, and make publicly available, via the internet, travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas, states and localities....
  
  

Many a times it is used for calculation of unpaid work done by women as well as men in particular locality.