Children's time use

Title
Children's time use
Publication Date
2026-03-31
Author(s)
Bittman, Michael
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9137-5542
Email: mbittman@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mbittman
Baxter, Jennifer A
Corey, Joanne
Gallagher, Jenny
Editor
Editor(s): Michael Bittman and Oriel Sullivan
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.4324/9781003664543-22
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/74604
Abstract

This chapter investigates the measurement of children’s time use in large-scale population surveys. Some information on children as young three years of age has been gathered in Italian time use surveys by getting parents to report on their children’s activities. There has been a study of adolescents’ activities in Wave 6 of the Millenium Cohort Study in the UK. However, the richest data comes from two longitudinal studies—the long-running Child Development Supplement attached to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), popularly known as Growing Up in Australia. These longitudinal surveys provide unparalleled window on the child’s development, parental influences, transmission of advantages and disadvantages, reconciliation work and family responsibilities, and the influence of media consumption on children’s behaviours. Longitudinal survey also gathers information about some crucial outcomes. These outcome variables are unique to longitudinal survey and not normally as thoroughly investigated in other time use surveys.

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Citation
The Routledge International Handbook of Time Use Themes and Applications, v.2, p. 203-221
ISBN
9781041123972
9781041123989
9781003664543
Start page
203
End page
221

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