B. ROLES AND LIFESTYLES
6 Life-Cycle and Across-the-Week Allocation of Time to Daily Activities Jiri Zuzanek and Brian J. A. Smale
The following analyses focus on the relationship between the life cycle, the daily uses of time, and the weekly rhythms of everyday life. An attempt is made to demonstrate that life-cycle situations affect not only the total amount of weekly time allocated to various daily activities (an issue that has been examined in the literature), but also the distribution of this time across the week. In particular, we examine life-cycle variations in the weekly distribution of time to such activities as work, domestic work, personal needs, and discretionary (leisure) activities. Our analyses are inspired by and make use of three research traditions: (1) the uses of time or time-budget studies, (2) studies of the life cycle and its effects on daily life and leisure participation; and (3) studies of "social time."
This is a modified version of a paper that appeared in Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure (1992). Jiri Zuzanek and Brian J. A. Smale • Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1. Time Use Research in the Social Sciences, edited by Wendy E. Pentland, Andrew S. Harvey, M. Powell Lawton, and Mary Ann McColl. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999. 127