scholarly journals The Representativeness of Online Time Use Surveys. Effects of Individual Time Use Patterns and Survey Design on the Timing of Survey Dropout

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-906
Author(s):  
Petrus te Braak ◽  
Joeri Minnen ◽  
Ignace Glorieux
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Automated Processes ◽  
Weighting Coefficients ◽  
Time Use Surveys

AbstractLike other surveys, time use surveys are facing declining response rates. At the same time paper-and-pencil surveys are increasingly replaced by online surveys. Both the declining response rates and the shift to online research are expected to have an impact on the representativeness of survey data questioning whether they are still the most suitable instrument to obtain a reliable view on the organization of daily life. This contribution examines the representativeness of a self-administered online time use survey using Belgian data collected in 2013 and 2014. The design of the study was deliberately chosen to test the automated processes that replace interviewer support and its cost-efficiency. We use weighting coefficients, a life table and discrete-time survival analyses to better understand the timing and selectivity of dropout, with a focus on the effects of individual time use patterns and the survey design. The results show that there are three major hurdles that cause large groups of respondents to drop out. This dropout is selective, and this selectivity differs according to the dropout moment. The contribution aims to provide a better insight in dropout during the fieldwork and tries to contribute to the further improvement of survey methodology of online time use surveys.

scholarly journals Simultaneous activities in the household and residential electricity demand in Spain

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Torriti ◽  
Isabel Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Electricity Demand ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Residential Electricity ◽  
Spanish Time Use Survey ◽  
Time Use Surveys ◽  
Research And Policy

Recent research and policy studies on the low-carbon future highlight the importance of flexible electricity demand. This might be problematic particularly for residential electricity demand, which is related to simultaneous consumers’ practices in the household. This paper analyses issues of simultaneity in residential electricity demand in Spain. It makes use of the 2011 Spanish Time Use Survey data with comparisons from the previous Spanish Time Use Survey and the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys. Findings show that media activities are associated with the highest levels of continuity and simultaneity, particularly in the early and late parts of the evening during weekdays.

scholarly journals Exploring daily time-use patterns: ATUS-X data extractor and online diary visualization tool

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252843
Author(s):  
Kamila Kolpashnikova ◽  
Sarah Flood ◽  
Oriel Sullivan ◽  
Liana Sayer ◽  
Ekaterina Hertog ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Accessibility Barriers ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Daily Time

Time-use data can often be perceived as inaccessible by non-specialists due to their unique format. This article introduces the ATUS-X diary visualization tool that aims to address the accessibility issue and expand the user base of time-use data by providing users with opportunity to quickly visualize their own subsamples of the American Time Use Survey Data Extractor (ATUS-X). Complementing the ATUS-X, the online tool provides an easy point-and-click interface, making data exploration readily accessible in a visual form. The tool can benefit a wider academic audience, policy-makers, non-academic researchers, and journalists by removing accessibility barriers to time use diaries.

scholarly journals How Good Is Survey Design in Medical Libraries? A Systematic Review of User Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel Margaret Esson
Keyword(s):  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Good Response Rate ◽  
Medical Libraries

<p>Introduction: Medical libraries very often base the decisions they make about library services on information gathered from user surveys. Is the quality of information obtained in this way sufficient to enable evidence-based practice? Aim: To determine what aspects of user survey design and presentation obtain the best response rates and therefore high external validity. Also to provide guidance for medical librarians who may wish to carry out user surveys. Methods: Library and information studies databases and Medline were searched to identify studies that reported the results of library user surveys that measured user perceptions of an existing library service or potential service. Studies that evaluated information skills training or clinical librarianship interventions were excluded as they have been looked in separate systematic reviews. Also studies that reported the results of LibQUAL or SERVQUAL were excluded. Results: 54 studies were included. The quality of the majority of the surveys was not clear as the reporting of the methodology of the user surveys was poor. However, it was determined that, as demonstrated in previous research, paper format surveys reported higher response rates than online-only surveys. It was not possible to extract any relevant data from the identified studies to draw any conclusions relating to presentation of the survey instrument. Conclusions: Unless survey methodology is reported in detail it is not possible to judge the quality of the evidence surveys contain. Good survey design is key to obtaining a good response rate and a good response rate means the results can be used for evidence-based practice. A Reporting Survey results Guideline (Resurge) is recommended to help improve the reporting quality of medical library survey research.</p>

scholarly journals All practices are shared, but some more than others: Sharedness of social practices and time-use in food consumption

2020 ◽  
pp. 146954052090714
Author(s):  
Marie Plessz ◽  
Stefan Wahlen
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
Sequence Periodicity ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Systematic Framework ◽  
Time Use Surveys

Even though we spend less and less time cooking and eating, food consumption remains a corner stone of the temporal organisation of everyday life. This paper is interested in how and to which extent food practices can be described as shared. We situate our investigation at the confluence of practice theories and the empirical analysis of time-use surveys. While qualitative research highlights the interrelations between many activities and agents necessary to consume food, quantitative data, such as time-use surveys, underscore the shared temporality of eating. We ask whether practices are shared beyond being socially recognised and mutually understandable forms of actions. Accordingly, we are interested in how some practices might be described as more shared than others, or shared in different ways? We identify three characteristics of sharedness: participation, commitment and temporal concentration. The latter is a key indicator of dispersed collective activity, inasmuch as participants engage in the practice in similar ways even without coordinating explicitly around it. We measure and compare the characteristics of sharedness by analysing the Dutch time-use survey 2011 (N = 2,005). Such an analysis offers empirical evidence for our characterisation of sharedness by mapping five food-related practices (eating a meal, snacking, cooking, shopping, and cleaning) onto five dimensions of temporality (duration, sequence, periodicity, synchronisation, and tempo). The characteristics of sharedness afford a systematic framework to analyse culture in dispersed collective activity. Our analysis also provides novel vistas to reflect upon power in shared practices by investigating their temporal concentration.

scholarly journals How Good Is Survey Design in Medical Libraries? A Systematic Review of User Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel Margaret Esson
Keyword(s):  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Good Response Rate ◽  
Medical Libraries

<p>Introduction: Medical libraries very often base the decisions they make about library services on information gathered from user surveys. Is the quality of information obtained in this way sufficient to enable evidence-based practice? Aim: To determine what aspects of user survey design and presentation obtain the best response rates and therefore high external validity. Also to provide guidance for medical librarians who may wish to carry out user surveys. Methods: Library and information studies databases and Medline were searched to identify studies that reported the results of library user surveys that measured user perceptions of an existing library service or potential service. Studies that evaluated information skills training or clinical librarianship interventions were excluded as they have been looked in separate systematic reviews. Also studies that reported the results of LibQUAL or SERVQUAL were excluded. Results: 54 studies were included. The quality of the majority of the surveys was not clear as the reporting of the methodology of the user surveys was poor. However, it was determined that, as demonstrated in previous research, paper format surveys reported higher response rates than online-only surveys. It was not possible to extract any relevant data from the identified studies to draw any conclusions relating to presentation of the survey instrument. Conclusions: Unless survey methodology is reported in detail it is not possible to judge the quality of the evidence surveys contain. Good survey design is key to obtaining a good response rate and a good response rate means the results can be used for evidence-based practice. A Reporting Survey results Guideline (Resurge) is recommended to help improve the reporting quality of medical library survey research.</p>

scholarly journals Japanese Long-term Eldercare System Still Fails Women and the Poor: Who are Family Caregivers and What Do They Do?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila Kolpashnikova ◽  
Man-Yee Kan
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Perform Cluster Analysis ◽  
Elder Caregivers ◽  
Daily Time

On the surface, an average day of caregivers is not considerably different from non-caregivers, but caregivers spend more time doing housework and less–doing work or enjoying leisure activities. Using the Japanese Time Use Survey, we perform cluster analysis and identify five patterns of daily time-use lifestyles of elder caregivers: (1) the leisurely weekend caregivers, (2) the multitaskers, (3) the sandwich caregivers, (4) the working poor caregivers, and (5) the agriculture/construction traveler caregivers. Our results show that the first three groups spend the most time on caregiving activities, but a larger proportion of sandwich caregivers report doing eldercare on the diary day. Care activities for sandwich caregivers are more likely to coincide with housework, which increases the volume of the total unpaid work significantly. The fourth type of daily time use patterns and their demographic profiles reveal that they are heavily overrepresented by the working poor, hence the choice of the name of the category. Even among other types, caregivers are more likely to live in households that have lower income than non-caregivers. Our results imply that caregivers face higher economic strain than non-caregivers, even among those caregivers who work. This applies particularly to women because the findings also indicate that women are more likely to be caregivers than men.

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