Sociology and Space, No. 73-74, 1981.
Preliminary communication
The Time Budget of Young People in Vojvodina
Terez Kovač
Abstract
The empirical research project
whose results are in part used
here was carried out in 1978 in
three villages in Vojvodina. The
purpose was to establish the
weekly time structure used for
everyday activities by three most
numerous professional groups of
young people: housewives,
farmers and qualified workers.
The unit of measurement was
the hour turned into percentage.
Activities were grouped as follows:
working time, going to and coming
from work, household work, time
spent to regenerate the body and
leisure. The starting hypothesis
was that there is no statistically
important difference between
those professional categories of
young people from the aspect of
the structure of the time budget.
The results showed that of the
168 hours in a week, an average
of 38.6 hours are work hours (or
23% of the total time budget):
50.4 hours for qualified workers,
48.7 hours for farmers and 16.8
hours a week for housewives).
Young people (excluding
housewives) use an average of
2% of their total time for going
to and coming from work, but
farmers include going to and
coming from work in their work
time. The young spend an average
of 26.8 hours a week working in
the household (16% of the total
time): farmers 16.8 hours,
qualified workers 11.8 hours and
housewives 52.9 hours. 40% of the
total time budget is used to
regenerate the body, i.e. 67.2 hours
a week, or 9.6 hours a day. The
young spend only one fifth of the time they have at their disposal
in leisure. The data obtained shows
great differences in the length of
time spent in going to work and
back, in household work and in
the regeneration of the body for
farmers, qualified workers and
housewives.
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Hrčak ID:
119604
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Publication date:
8.12.1981.
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