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- General Social Survey - Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2)
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- Journals and periodicals: 89-652-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication presents key highlights and results from the General Social Survey on the topics of caregiving and care receiving; social identity; giving, volunteering and participating; victimization; time use; and family.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026001Description: This infographic on satisfaction with time use provides valuable information about how a person perceives their overall time spent in daily activities, such as paid work, unpaid work and care, leisure, or sleep. It is an indicator of the Canada’s Quality of Life Framework and one of the OECD’s recommended measures of subjective well-being.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Articles and reports: 89-652-X2026001Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this paper sheds light on Canadians’ Quality of Life by providing a short overview of the satisfaction with time use. Results show that reporting high satisfaction with time use differs depending on factors such as age, disability, and region of Canada.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202607841134Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-03-19
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025043Description: This infographic provides new evidence on time pressure in Canada over a period of 30 years, using the Time Use Survey from 1992 to 2022. The infographic investigates how much time pressure do Canadians feel and in what domains this time pressure is felt the most. It also explores how feelings of time pressure have changed over time and how they might differ by gender.Release date: 2025-06-17
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024041Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this infographic explores how parents in different-gender couples share the unpaid work of caring for their own children. It examines how much time parents spend caring for children, how parents report sharing child care in their households, when equal sharing is more or less common, and how sharing child care is linked to time pressure.Release date: 2024-10-07
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202415737424Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-06-05
- 8. How does teleworking impact time use? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2024024Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this infographic provides highlights from the study “Telework, time use, and well-being: Evidence from the 2022 Time Use Survey.” Data about the differences in time use between teleworkers and non-teleworkers are shown, particularly where time saved on the commute to and from work is reallocated to other activities such as time spent with children. The infographic also shows the differences in satisfaction with work-life balance when comparing the two groups.Release date: 2024-06-05
- Articles and reports: 89-654-X2022001Description: This fact sheet uses time use data from the 2015 General Social Survey to explore how persons with disabilities spend their time, including analysis by sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and employment status. Activities analyzed include paid work, unpaid work, sleep, personal care, leisure, and transportation. Perceptions of time use among persons with disabilities are also included.Release date: 2022-12-02
- Articles and reports: 85-002-X202200100003Description:
This Juristat article relies on multiple data sources to examine perceptions of police, confidence in institutions, and experiences of serious legal problems or disputes. Analysis focuses on the experiences of the Black population, First Nations people, Métis, and Inuit in Canada, including information for distinct groups where possible.
Release date: 2022-02-16
Stats in brief (12)
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- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026001Description: This infographic on satisfaction with time use provides valuable information about how a person perceives their overall time spent in daily activities, such as paid work, unpaid work and care, leisure, or sleep. It is an indicator of the Canada’s Quality of Life Framework and one of the OECD’s recommended measures of subjective well-being.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202607841134Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-03-19
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025043Description: This infographic provides new evidence on time pressure in Canada over a period of 30 years, using the Time Use Survey from 1992 to 2022. The infographic investigates how much time pressure do Canadians feel and in what domains this time pressure is felt the most. It also explores how feelings of time pressure have changed over time and how they might differ by gender.Release date: 2025-06-17
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024041Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this infographic explores how parents in different-gender couples share the unpaid work of caring for their own children. It examines how much time parents spend caring for children, how parents report sharing child care in their households, when equal sharing is more or less common, and how sharing child care is linked to time pressure.Release date: 2024-10-07
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202415737424Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-06-05
- 6. How does teleworking impact time use? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2024024Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this infographic provides highlights from the study “Telework, time use, and well-being: Evidence from the 2022 Time Use Survey.” Data about the differences in time use between teleworkers and non-teleworkers are shown, particularly where time saved on the commute to and from work is reallocated to other activities such as time spent with children. The infographic also shows the differences in satisfaction with work-life balance when comparing the two groups.Release date: 2024-06-05
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2020057Description:
Staying apart from their parents and grandparents has been one of the hardest adjustments that Canadians have had to deal with since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the older population being at greater risk of infection and death from this disease. For months, most of them followed the quarantine rules, by staying home and adapting their behaviours to the infectious nature of the COVID-19. While before the outbreak visiting with one's parents was a relatively simple decision, it has since become a more delicate one. Studies have attempted to assess the risk of the virus transmission based on the frequency of intergenerational in-person contacts before the physical distancing recommendations were implemented.
This infographic provides a snapshot of the frequency and the duration of visits between adult children and their parent(s) in Canada. The results refer to Canadians who were aged 25 to 64, who were not living with their parents, and who had at least one biological or adoptive parent alive at the time of the surveys.
Release date: 2020-12-24 - 8. Ready, set, snooze! ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2018029Description:
Adequate sleep is considered important for health and well-being. This infographic uses data from the 2015 Time Use Survey to look at how much sleep Canadians are getting and factors associated with less than 6 hours of sleep per night. These include stress levels during an average day, ratings of mental health and reasons why some choose to cut back on their sleep.
Release date: 2018-10-10 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201821118146Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-07-30
- 10. Time to eat ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2018003Description:
This infographic presents results from the 2015 General social Survey on time use, specifically the activity of eating from a time use perspective. The data were collected in a 24 hour diary from respondents 15 years or older. The diary covered the total activities of a day.
Release date: 2018-03-23
Articles and reports (26)
Articles and reports (26) (0 to 10 of 26 results)
- Articles and reports: 89-652-X2026001Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this paper sheds light on Canadians’ Quality of Life by providing a short overview of the satisfaction with time use. Results show that reporting high satisfaction with time use differs depending on factors such as age, disability, and region of Canada.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Articles and reports: 89-654-X2022001Description: This fact sheet uses time use data from the 2015 General Social Survey to explore how persons with disabilities spend their time, including analysis by sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and employment status. Activities analyzed include paid work, unpaid work, sleep, personal care, leisure, and transportation. Perceptions of time use among persons with disabilities are also included.Release date: 2022-12-02
- Articles and reports: 85-002-X202200100003Description:
This Juristat article relies on multiple data sources to examine perceptions of police, confidence in institutions, and experiences of serious legal problems or disputes. Analysis focuses on the experiences of the Black population, First Nations people, Métis, and Inuit in Canada, including information for distinct groups where possible.
Release date: 2022-02-16 - Articles and reports: 11-637-X202000100005Description: As the fifth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030. This 2020 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fifth Sustainable Development Goal in support of Gender Equality, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.Release date: 2020-10-20
- Articles and reports: 89-503-X201500154931Description:
Using Statistics Canada data from multiple cycles of the General Social Survey, this chapter of Women in Canada examines gender differences in the allocation of time to both primary activities and simultaneous activities (i.e., those done concurrently with other activities), focusing on unpaid work and leisure. It also estimates the total work burden of women and men. In addition to gender, age, family type, and immigrant status may affect time use. For this reason, gender differences in time use among these sub-populations are explored.
Release date: 2018-07-30 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201800154947Description:
This study uses the 2015 General Social Survey on Time Use to examine the time spent by Canadian seniors aged 65 and over on various activities. The paper focuses on three types of activities: unpaid household work, active pursuits and passive leisure activities. It examines the factors associated with time spent on these activities, and also provides comparisons with the 1986 General Social Survey on Time Use.
Release date: 2018-03-21 - 7. Changes in parents' participation in domestic tasks and care for children from 1986 to 2015 ArchivedArticles and reports: 89-652-X2017001Description:
This article compares Canadians fathers' and mothers' participation in domestic tasks and care to children for the past 30 years. The results are based on data from the 2015 and 1986 General Social Survey on Time Use.
Release date: 2017-06-01 - 8. The Social Participation of Full-time Workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-004-M2013002Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the social participation of full-time workers, both formal (i.e., volunteering for organizations) and informal (i.e., helping friends, neighbours). We also look at relatively unexplored factors of social participation, such as flexibility of working conditions, commuting time and worker categories.
Release date: 2013-04-02 - 9. Families, living arrangements and unpaid work ArchivedArticles and reports: 89-503-X201000111546Geography: CanadaDescription:
This chapter on families, living arrangements and unpaid work examines the family context and living arrangements of women, including their conjugal lives, and for those in couples, whether they are legal marriages or common-law unions, opposite-sex or same-sex couples, and whether or not there are children present. In addition, female lone-parent families are also analysed, as well as women who live in other arrangements, such as alone or with non-relatives. Other patterns related to births, marriages and divorces are explored, as are family characteristics and living arrangements of immigrant women and visible minority women. Finally, the area of unpaid work is examined, specifically, care of household children, domestic work (including housework and household maintenance) and volunteering.
Release date: 2011-12-14 - 10. Generational change in paid and unpaid work ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X201100211520Geography: CanadaDescription:
Research suggests that the division of labour and the role expectations for men and women are continuing to evolve. This may be especially true for Generation Y, those born between 1980 and 1995 and who grew up during a period of changing family dynamics and family formation. Using General Social Survey - Time use data from 1986, 1998 and 2010 this article examines the changes in the participation in, and time spent on paid work and unpaid household work of individuals aged 20 to 29 from three generations' late baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y. The final section looks at the distribution of time spent on paid and unpaid work within dual-earner couples.
Release date: 2011-07-12
Journals and periodicals (3)
Journals and periodicals (3) ((3 results))
- Journals and periodicals: 89-652-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication presents key highlights and results from the General Social Survey on the topics of caregiving and care receiving; social identity; giving, volunteering and participating; victimization; time use; and family.Release date: 2026-03-19
- Journals and periodicals: 89-647-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This publication provides an overview of the time use of Canadians produced from the 2010 General Social Survey on Time Stress and Well-being. It presents information on participation rates and average amount of time spent on various activities and compares recent data with information obtained from a similar survey conducted in 1998. In addition, it examines Canadians' perceptions of time stress.
Release date: 2011-07-12 - Journals and periodicals: 89-584-MGeography: CanadaDescription:
This study provides a detailed analysis of findings based on the 1998 General Social Survey on Time Use, with some analysis of trends over time using the 1986 and 1992 time use surveys. It addresses the question of how life transitions affect time use patterns and quality of life indicators.
Like other resources, time is finite. Unlike other resources, time is shared equally by everyone. The trade-offs people make between competing activities depend largely on the nature of their roles and obligations at each stage of life. These trade-offs say a great deal about a person's lifestyle, preferences and choices, or lack of choice. However, the life cycle has lost the uniformity and formality that it once had. Life-course patterns are now more diverse, and the transitions themselves are more likely to be experienced as extended and complex processes rather than as distinct events. Thus, it becomes important to study the impact of various life transitions on time use and quality of life.
This study examines the following life transitions, with a focus on a comparison of the experiences of women and men:- transition from school to employment- transitions related to union formation and parenthood- transition to retirement- transitions associated with aging: widowhood and changes in living arrangements
Release date: 2004-09-09