Mikrocensus 1981, 3. quarter: Daily Routine

The Mikrozensus special survey from September 1981 is daily routine. Every interviewed person has to answer questions on the schedule of one day - normally the day before the interview. Surveys on the daily routine - called time budget survey in the social sciences - are conducted in nearly every industrialised country. They give information on how different population groups spend their time. Some parts of these time budgets have always been asked in the Mikrozensus: work time, duration of the trip to work, time spent on housework and child care, etc. This time the schedule of a whole day is recorded to make the collective representation of the individual parts possible. This data is needed for planning (traffic planning, planning in the recreational sector, an planning of socio-political measures) and for comparison with other countries and population groups.