Time Spent in Household Management: Evidence and Implications

Time Spent in Household Management: Evidence and Implications

This study investigates time spent in household management, an important ‘‘missing ingredient’’ in time use studies, using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). These data indicate that adults spend an average of just over 1.5 h per week in this function. This figure likely underestimates total management time because (1) management is often done in small blocks, and hence, may be miss...

Characterization of spent AA household alkaline batteries.

The aim of this work is identification of the structural components of actual domestic spent alkaline AA batteries, as well as quantification of some of their characteristics. Weight, humidity, ash content, zinc and zinc oxide on anode, manganese on cathode and other metals, potassium hydroxide on the internal components and heating values for papers, anode and cathode were determined in severa...

Appliances and their impact: the ownership of domestic technology and time spent on household work.

Ever since the appearance of Vanek's pioneering article in 1974, there has been a controversy about whether 'labour saving' domestic appliances actually save labour time. Vanek argued that time spent in housework had barely changed since 1926, despite the diffusion of practically every known domestic appliance over this period. Gershuny and Robinson challenge Vanek's 'constancy of housework' th...

Evidence of Double Dissociation in Auditory Agnosia: Implications for Rehabilition

The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the variation between primary care centres (PCCs) with regard to prescribing antibiotics and to investigate whether the variation can be explained by factors related to patient satisfaction and to socio-demographic characteristics of the populations in the catchment areas of the PCCs. METHODS The frequency of prescription of antibiotics by GPs at the PCCs was used as the ...