Statistics of time use in the USSR

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Belova, Natalya Fedorovna¹ | Dmitrichev, Igor Ivanovich²

Note: [1] Natalya Fedorovna Belova was born in Moscow in 1929. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics and is employed in the State Committee of the USSR on Statistics since 1952. At present, she is Chief of the Division of Family Budgets and Studies of Public Opinion. She supervises and participates directly in the improvement of the studies relating to family budgets and related fields and developed a computer-based methodology for the calculation of indicators of total family income.

Note: [2] Igor Ivanovich Dmitrichev was born in the Moscow Region in 1954. In 1977, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics and joined the State Committee of the USSR on Statistics. His current function is that of Deputy Chief of the Division of Family Budgets and Studies of Public Opinion. He works on the improvement of family budget statistics as well as on other information regarding the socio-economic life of the population. He published several papers on questions of the standard of living.

Abstract: The periodic sample surveys conducted by the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR on the time “budgets” of the population are of great importance for studies on the utilization of working time, the shortening of periods spent unproductively or wasted, the increase in free time through the development of the service sector, the shortening and lightening of the work of housekeeping, improvement of the modes and organization of leisure and relaxation, creation of better conditions for bringing up children, and the influence of raising of the population's material and cultural level on changes in the pattern of utilization of working and non-working time.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1988-5404

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 393-402, 1988