Webinar: Measuring time use and quantifying care: Challenges and strategies in the design and harmonization of time use surveys

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This webinar will present the key findings of the studies by Nancy Folbre and Jacques Charmes from their recent collaborative research with UN Women, particularly on:

• Determining the effect of methodological features on reports of total time devoted to unpaid work and, more specifically, direct care of family members and testing the hypotheses generated in six countries;
• Identifying methodological problems that stand in the way of cross-country comparisons of time-use surveys globally;
• Reviewing existing academic literature and statistical office reports (including smaller scale community time use surveys and Living Standards Measurement and related surveys); and
• Generating some hypotheses regarding the implications of methodological issues.

It will also provide an opportunity to be informed of the present work of the UN Expert Group on Innovative and Effective Ways to Collect Time-Use Statistics (EG-TUS) as part of the global conversation.

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