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Couples’ activities: co-ordination and enjoyment

Couples’ activities: co-ordination and enjoyment. Oriel Sullivan Centre for Time Use Research Department of Sociology University of Oxford. Diary Code Activity Sequence; couples. Data: The Unilever couples time use diary 1987.

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Couples’ activities: co-ordination and enjoyment

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  1. Couples’ activities: co-ordination and enjoyment OrielSullivan Centre for Time Use Research Department of Sociology University of Oxford Centre for Time Use Research

  2. Diary Code Activity Sequence; couples

  3. Data: The Unilever couples time use diary 1987 • The sample consisted of 380 heterosexual couples married or living together as married, who kept simultaneous 5-day time-use diaries in June or July of 1986. The sample was selected from a national random sample maintained by Taylor-Nelson, and was stratified in order to include information on couples in different stages of the life-course (Erlich, 1987). • In the analyses only those couples where there were at least 96 (i.e. two full days worth) of all activity codes and enjoyment ratings for both husband and wife recorded have been selected for analysis. This brings the total number of cases down from 380 to 275 couples, each with at least 384 valid coded values.

  4. In all 18 pieces of information per 1/2 hour for both women and men throughout the day were coded, but this analysis uses only • main activity sequences and • the enjoyment of those activities • Enjoyment rating scale: 1 Enjoying a lot 2 Enjoying a little 3 Neutral 4 Not enjoying much 5 Not enjoying at all

  5. Permitting analysis of: • the proportion of men's and women's time spent in various activities • the sequential pattern of activities through the day for women and men • women and men's enjoyment of different activities • women and men's overall average enjoyment • the proportion of time spent doing the same activity as a spouse ('simultaneous' activities) • the enjoyment of activities undertaken simultaneously and non-simultaneously • spousal correlations of overall enjoyment

  6. Table 1. Do couples co-ordinate their time? : simultaneity of time-use among real and 'pseudo' couples.

  7. Table 2. Average Enjoyment Ratings for Activities: partners

  8. Table 3. Average Enjoyment Ratings for Co-ordinated Activities: Partners ) ) ) )

  9. Table 4. Average enjoyment ratings by activity and whether activity is simultaneous or non-simultaneous; male partners * Difference is statistically significant at P<.05 or less

  10. Table 5. Average enjoyment ratings by activity and whether activity is simultaneous or non-simultaneous; female partners

  11. All differences statistically significant at P<.05 or less

  12. All differences significant apart from those for • Cleaning • Clothes care • (i.e. the most disliked of all activities............)

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