1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Effects of the Use of Market Services on the Time Allocation of Married Females
| Project/Area Number |
08680021
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
家政学
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRATA Michinori HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY,Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (30111660)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Keywords | Time Use / Housework / Employment of Females / Market Services |
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| Research Abstract |
1. I compared the time devoted to the housework by married employed females with married unemployed females on controlling the age and family structure by using the existent time budget data. In all ages and family structures, married unemployed females spend longer on the housework.
2. I conducted the original time budget survey whose population was husbands and wives of the same households. The results are as follows.
3. Some market services related to the housework are used more by married employed females. However, married unemployed females also use other market services. Time devoted to the housework becomes shorter by using some kind of market services.
4. I asked the attitudes to using the market services related to the housework and to reducing the amount of housework in the questionnaire attached to the time budget survey. Both husbands and wives agree that they want to produce the housework services by family members instead of using market services. Wives agree more than husbands with reducing the amount of housework.
5. There are some relations between the attitudes mentioned above and the time spent on the housework. Those who agree with using the market services or with reducing the amount of housework spend less on housework.
6. I reach the conclusion that the use of the market services related to the housework gives partly the effects on the time allocation of females. The attitudes to using the market services related to the housework or to reducing the amount of housework are more related to the time spent to housework than the use of market services itself.
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