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The purpose of "The Time Budget Survey 1980-81" is to gain insight into how the population spends their time on various activities. "The Time Budget Survey" is our most important source of information concerning what forms of unpaid work is being performed in our society, who is performing this work and when it is performed. "The Time Budget Survey" containes information on how people actually live their lives within the restrains caused by their living conditions, this is information no other survey gives, thus "The Time Budget Survey" is a valuable supplement to the data collected though "The Level of Living Surveys". "The Time Budget Survey" was conducted for the first time in Norway in 1972-1973 drawing heavyly upon the international survey "Comparative Time-Budget Projecet", executed as a comparative project in twelv countries(A. Szalai (red.): The Use of Time, 1965-66). The survey addresses aspects concerning 1. Work 2. Work related trevels 3. Domestic work 4. Personal needs 5. Education 6. Free time This dataset contains the data for the interviews. The diaries are documented in a separate file.