Time use in the Netherlands

Edition 1

Introduction

The way in which people spend their time provides a good deal of information about their preferences, norms, opportunities and constraints. Time use data are therefore a unique tool for gaining insight into social differences and societal changes. Do men and women, people with higher and lower education levels and people in different life stages organise their time differently? And do we allocate our time differently compared to a decade ago?

‘Time use in the Netherlands’ is a digital publication (‘card stack’), made up of a number of standalone pages, or 'cards’. Each card deals with one aspect of the time use of the Dutch. The data are based on the Time Use Survey 2016 (TBO ‘16), supplemented with data from the 2006 and 2011 surveys.

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