Summary information
Study title
Family, Work and Leisure in the London Region, 1970: Diaries
Creator
Young, M., Institute of Community Studies
Willmott, P., Institute of Community Studies
Study number / PID
2 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this survey was to examine the relationship between work, home and leisure in order to explain changes in family patterns; to provide demographic, social/behavioural and economic data for the analysis of family life.The purpose of this survey was to provide additional information to the main Family, Work and Leisure in the London Region, 1970 study (SN 1) in the form of diaries kept by respondents of the main sample who were married and between the ages of 30 and 49. Respondents were asked to make a time budget study for the two days of the weekend and one weekday and to keep a log of activities done outside the home on the other four evenings of the week. The main interest of this part of the project was the day-to-day life patterns of men and women in middle life.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
28/02/1970 - 31/07/1970
Country
England
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Subnational
Individuals
Families/households
Universe
Respondents of SN:001 who were married and between the ages 30 - 49
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Diaries
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1973
Terms of data access
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Related publications
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