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Women’s Roles in Non-economic Activities
Using Time Use Surveys in Thailand
Oarawan Suttangkul
Bongkoj Wibultananun
Wichan Choorat
National Statistical Office (NSO) of Thailand
3rd Global Forum on Gender Statistics
10-13 October 2010
Manila, Philippines
ESA/STAT/AC.219/32
Non-economic activities
Definition
Work, services or activities:
– without monetary remunerations,
– for household members, other households or
community
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Non-economic activities (cont.)
 Group of activities for analysis
– Group 1: Household maintenance, management and
shopping for own household
– Group 2: Care for children, the sick, elderly and disabled
for own household
– Group 3: Community services and help to other household
 Data sources
- The Time Use Surveys 2001 and 2004
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Historical development
of Time Use Survey in Thailand
2001
- All day activities
- Main Activities (2 digits)
- Represent
(Whole Kingdom, Region)
2004
- All day activities
- Prepare time every 10 minutes
-Main and Second activities
(3 digits)
- Represent
(Whole Kingdom, Region)
2009
- All day activities
- Prepare time every 10 minutes
-Main and second activities
(5 digits)
- Represent
(Whole kingdom, Region)
(On data cleaning process)
International classification of activities for Time-Use Statistics (ICATUS)
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Average time of respondents aged
10 yrs and over by activities group
(hours per day)
Non-economic
activities
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Share of non-economic activities
between 2001 and 2004
% Population by sex
Group 1: Household
maintenance,
management and
shopping for own
household
Group 2: Care for
children, the sick,
elderly and disabled
for own household
2001
2004
Group 3: Community
services and help to
other household
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Average time use for non-economics by sex
and activities
(hours per day)
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Group1: Household maintenance, management
and shopping for own household
% Population by sex among different activities
2001
2004
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Group2: Care for children, the sick, elderly
and disabled for own household
% Population by sex among different activities
2001
2004
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Group3: Community services and
help to other household
% Population by sex among different activities
2001
2004
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Conclusions and policy recommendations
 Women participated in non-economic activities more
than men, especially household services and care for
household members.
 To reduce gender inequity, both economic and noneconomic activities should be equally addressed.
 Non-economic activities, should be included in the
GDP estimation.
 Need campaign to change social attitude, especially
men, on sharing responsibility in non-economic activities.
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