The assumption about social class and participation in housework are based on the empirical results in Western countries. As such SES is assumed to work in the similar way in other regions. This can often lead to wrong interpretations in other cultural areas. One such exception is Japan. I...

This paper forms part of the project Gender, Time Allocation, and the Wage Gap funded by the ESRC Gender Equality Network. It has been greatly improved as a result of my discussions with Professor Jonathan Gershuny. It has also benefited from comments received from my Time Use Group colleagues,...

In this paper, we calibrate a set of time use variables for a long-running panel survey (the British Household Panel Survey, BHPS, 1994 2004) from evidence derived from a smaller scale panel survey that collected time use information by both the survey method and the diary method from the same...

This paper develops a continuously scaled indicator of social position (the Essex Score), which is estimated as individuals potential wage in the labour market. The Essex Score is designed as a tool to investigate patterns of differentiation in life chances. It is constructed based on...

This article uses a nine-year period of work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-1999) to examine married/cohabiting womens work trajectories. In particular, it tests some major contentions of Hakims (2000) preference theory. Both supportive and opposing evidence for...

We investigate the nature of measurement error in time use data. Analysis of stylised recall questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates of housework time from the same respondents gives evidence of systematic biases in the stylised estimates and large random errors in both types of data....