Life Stage and Coresidence Influences on Daily Time Use

• In Event: 295 - Regular Session. Sociology of Time Use

Abstract

This study investigates how coresidence affects young adult, mid-life adults, and older age adults daily time use patterns. Time diary surveys provide reliable, detailed, and comparable data on how family and social change influence work, family, and health related activities (e.g. eating, sleep, leisure). Variation across intergenerational coresidential family types may be one of the key factors that explains gender and class differences in social integrative and economically productive time use and health-related behaviors (e.g. eating, sleep, leisure). We find that coresidence is associated with more leisure and less market work among women and men in all life stages, but patterns are more complex for care work.

Authors

• Liana C. Sayer, University of Maryland

• Lyn Craig, University of New South Wales