Statistics Korea

Overview

Overview
Title	Time Use Survey
Type of statistics	Designated and surveyed statistics
Purpose	To provide basic data required for understanding people's life style and quality of life by measuring how people spend 24 hours To understand time spent on unpaid housework in order to analyze economic value of housework and to provide basic data required for integrating satellite account of households into national account system. To provide basic data for establishing various policies related to labor, welfare, culture and traffic as well as for academic research.
Periodicity	Every 5 years
History	1997: Established basic plans and collected & analyzed related data 1998: Three test surveys (May, Aug. and Nov.) and held expert meetings 1999: Preliminary model survey(May) and held social sectional meetings by the Statistics Committee (Jul.) 1999: The first survey (Sep.) 2003: Three test surveys (Jun., Jul. and Oct.) and held expert meetings 2004: Preliminary model survey (April) 2004: The second survey (Sep.) 2008: Carried out research on survey methodology, gathered opinions from experts and carried out the test survey 2009: The third survey (Mar., Sep.)