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Warsaw 2009: Sessions

Time use surveys: emerging issues (II)

Planned on Wednesday, 11:00 - 13:00 in Room 2.3.

Coordinators:

Mario Cools; Hasselt University, Belgium

Description:

Time use surveys often are carried out to identify, classify and quantify social behaviour of people by focusing on the activities that people perform. Time use data, in the transportation field often referred to as activity-based data, can be used to study a variety of sociological, economic, and technological phenomena. Studying behaviour, social networks and transport patterns are a few of the topics that can be analysed based on these time use data.

The session focuses on papers which discuss emerging issues in the collection of time-used data. Topics of particular interest include data collection methods safeguarding and improving data quality, automatic data collection methods (e.g. cell phones, GPS), harmonization of time-use data, and survey design experiences.

Accepted presentations:

Timing of life course in emerged adults -- F. Baumgartner
Measurement of need satisfaction in the realm of time use -- K. Zagorski
Roundtable discussion concerning identification and prioritizing of key issues in time use surveys -- I. Glorieux