Work Rich, Time Poor? Time-Use of Women and Men in Ireland



TIME-USE OF WOMEN AND MEN IN IRELAND

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Table A1: Figures for International Comparisons Using Split Time
Methodology: Average Day (Combining Weekday and Weekend Days)

Men
hh:mm

Women
hh:mm

All
hh:mm

Free-time

6:24

5:57

6:10

Personal care and eating

1:47

1:48

1:47

Sleep

8:07

8:18

8:13

Travel

1:16

0:59

1:07

Unpaid Work (care+housework)

1:45

4:41

3:15

Paid work/study

4:41

2:18

3:28

Total

24:00

24:00

24:00

Total committed

7:42

7:57

7:50

Total paid + unpaid

6:25

6:59

6:43

Source: Irish National Time-Use Survey, 2005.

Note: Split time means when multiple activities were recorded in one time-slot the
time was divided equally between activities.

For women, ‘free’ time is now higher than in other countries (33 minutes
more than the next highest country, Germany. Meals/personal care time, sleep
time and travel time show little effect of changing measure, and Irish women
still show low levels of time spent on these three measures, relative to the
other European women considered. Unpaid work time is reduced compared to
the priority measure presented in Table 5, but is still higher than the other
countries except Hungary which is now highest. Paid work levels are
unchanged. The total committed time for Irish women at 7 hours, 57 minutes
would be close to the average of the countries shown in Table 5 while using the
priority measure was highest. As noted in the text, we expect the best estimate
lies somewhere between the priority measure and the measures of time use
using split times.



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