Jens Bonke

Hvor meget arbejder danskerne på arbejdsmarkedet og i hjemmet, og hvor meget fritid har danskerne, og hvordan ser tidsfordelingen ud for mænd og kvinder? Spørgsmålene er interessante, fordi den daglige tidsanvendelse er et vigtigt udtryk for mænd og kvinders velfærd. Det ser vi nærmere på ved hjælp af oplysninger fra en ny tidsundersøgelse for 2018, som sammenlignes med en undersøgelse fra 2008 og tidligere undersøgelser også gennemført af ROCKWOOL Fondens Forskningsenhed.

This paper examines parental influence on school children's everyday activities that are related to a healthy or an unhealthy lifestyle. The paper is using the Danish Time-Use and Consumption Survey (DTUC) from 2008/09 with information on fathers', mothers' and children's time use.

This paper investigates the relation between women and men's life stages and their time allocation: paid work, household work, childcare and leisure time, and, in particular, how this allocation changes when moving from one stage to another stage. We use a new Danish panel dataset merged with Danish administrative register data, which allows for analysing the impact of individual, endogenous characteristics of the respondents such as preferences for doing specific activities. We find that the labour supply of fathers to pre-school children is not different from that of young men without children, while there is a negative correlation between mothers to pre-school children and young women's labour supply. Comparing fathers and mothers to school children with those to pre-school children, we find a positive correlation in both sexes labour supply. However, fixed effects estimations do not result in a reduction in mothers, nor in fathers, to pre-school children's labour supply indicating that there are some inborn characteristics for the other life-stage changes which are not revealed by doing ordinary cross-sectional analyses.

In parallel with the recent trend towards conducting ever more surveys, there has also been a decline in the response rates, making it harder to obtain the desired number of completed interviews for these surveys. Incentives used in surveys with the aim of increasing the response rates are manifold, varying from sending letters in advance and increasing the number of reminder calls to pre-interview payments, cash incentives, charitable donations, and the chance to win lottery prizes.