How do Georgians spend their time?
Georgia’s first-ever Time Use Survey released
In total, 3,680 households were selected for the survey by random sampling across the country. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge
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With the support of United Nations Women, the National Statistics Office of Georgia has released Georgia’s first-ever Time Use Survey, highlighting data about the time spent on various activities by the population of the country.
The breakdown of the surveyed individuals showed they spent the following amounts of time on average on the following activities:
- 11.7 hours a day - on self-care and maintenance
- 4.2 hours – on culture, leisure, mass-media and sports activities
- 2.6 hours – on employment and related activities
- 2.1 hours – on unpaid domestic services for household and family members
- 1.4 hours – on socialising and communication, community participation and religious activities 0.9 hours – on production of goods for own final use
- 0.6 hours – on unpaid caregiving services for household and family members
- 0.3 hours – on learning
- 0.1 hours – on unpaid volunteer, trainee and other unpaid work
In terms of time spent on activities, the biggest difference between women and men was observed in unpaid domestic services, Geostat said, with women spending 4.9 times more time per day than men on the tasks.
In the case of employment and related activities, the picture was the opposite – the average time spent by men in the category was 1.9 times higher than the same indicator for women.
In total, 3,680 households were selected for the survey by random sampling across the country. The survey included individuals aged 15 and above who, in their time use diaries, described the activities they conducted over 10-minute intervals for two preassigned full days.
The survey took place between 2020 and 2021 and was based on Eurostat and United Nations Organisation’s methodological guidelines, Geostat said.
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