time-use
How hours go
Time-use refers to how people allocate their hours across activities—work, leisure, sleep, caregiving, and so on.
The term appears mainly in social science research: time-use surveys, time-use data.
Researchers study time-use patterns to understand productivity, gender inequality in household labor, and quality of life.
Allocating funds systematically
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
tradeoffs · discretionary · obligatory · committed · leisure · work · sleep · childcare
Productive without waste
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- batchingProcessing in sets
- pomodoroItalian word for tomato
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
automation · workflow · focus · distraction · procrastination · habit · routine · calendar
Job and leisure spheres
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- employmentPaid occupation status
- productivityOutput relative to input
- GDPNational output abbreviation
well-being · inequality · retirement · aging · disability · poverty · sustainability
Systematic data collection
- diaryPersonal daily record
- allocationDistribution of shares
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- dataFacts for analysis
statistics · household · longitudinal · respondent · methodology · sampling · tracking · coding
budgeting
Allocating funds systematically
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- distributionAllocation across recipients
balance · tradeoffs · discretionary · obligatory · committed · leisure · work · sleep · childcare · housework
efficiency
Productive without waste
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- batchingProcessing in sets
- pomodoroItalian word for tomato
delegation · automation · workflow · focus · distraction · procrastination · habit · routine · calendar · planning
work-life
Job and leisure spheres
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- employmentPaid occupation status
- productivityOutput relative to input
GDP · well-being · inequality · retirement · aging · disability · poverty · sustainability
survey
Systematic data collection
- diaryPersonal daily record
- allocationDistribution of shares
- measurementDetermining size or amount
data · statistics · household · longitudinal · respondent · methodology · sampling · tracking · coding · recall
time-usetime passage
Movement through duration
idle time · wasted time · downtime · dead time · time loss
time, use, times, timed, timing, timer, timers, timely, untimely