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This study is a survey of the time use of the adult population of Great Britain, undertaken in April 1961. The original time diaries have been recoded in a way that enables comparisons with the 1966 multi-national study.October 2024:SPSS, Stata and tab-delimited text formats have been created from the original .dat files. The structure described in the User Guide has been maintained, but the .dat files are not available. Due to the age of the study, these data should be analysed with caution.

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Variables: Respondents kept diaries for a whole week (Sunday-Saturday), entering their main activity for each half-hour between 6.30 a.m. and midnight. Information was collected on respondent's age, sex, social grade, school-leaving age, occupation, family type and radio and TV ownership. The respondents' activities have been classified into over 100 activity codes, with additional allowance being made for the location of the activities (at home or away from home) and for viewing and listening secondary activities.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Diaries