Time use in Canada: Interactive visualization tool

Additional information

Data presented in this interactive tool are sourced from the 2022 Time Use Survey. This survey uses a 24-hour reference period and is recall-based, meaning that respondents are asked to report activities done in a previous day. The survey is diary-based and collects information about main activity, location, simultaneous activity, and length of time spent on each main activity. This interactive tool presents data about the main activity reported.

Each time interval represents five minutes. For example, where the label is "04:00", the time represents the minutes "04:00", "04:01", "04:02", "04:03", and "04:04".

The label “Not available” indicates that either there were no participants in the activity during a time frame, or the number of participants was too small and was regrouped into another category for confidentiality. In some of these cases, the participants could not be regrouped into another category. Where this occurred, the activities in a time stamp will not add up to 100%. A participant is a respondent who declared doing a certain activity on their reference day.

The label “0s” indicates that the value is a rounded zero (that is, the value is greater than 0 but less than 0.05).

Definitions

Sleep

"Sleep" includes insomnia, relaxing, and bed rest.

Personal care

"Personal care" refers to activities such as personal hygiene, self-administered medical care, and receiving personal care from another household member.

Eating

"Eating" refers to eating or drinking, and breaks related to studying or paid work.

Transportation

"Transportation" refers to travel in any mode of transportation, including private vehicle, active transport, and public transport.

Paid work, studying and learning

"Paid work" includes looking for paid work and waiting or idle time related to paid work. "Studying and learning" includes formal schooling, homework, tutoring, and self development classes. In both cases, breaks are excluded.

Unpaid care

"Unpaid care" refers to care done for household members or family members (of any age).

Unpaid domestic work

"Unpaid domestic work" refers to housework and shopping done for the household or family.

Socializing

"Socializing" includes socializing or communicating in person or using any type of technology.

Active leisure

"Active leisure" includes participating in sports, use of technology, arts and hobbies, and activities such as attending a concert or visiting a museum.

Passive leisure

"Passive leisure" includes watching television or videos, reading, and listening to music or the radio.

Other

"Other" includes unpaid help or care provided to other households or the community, organization-based volunteering or other unpaid work; civic or religious activities or community social events; and other or unknown activity.

Notes

Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Given that the non-binary population is small, data aggregation to a two-category gender variable is sometimes necessary to protect the confidentiality of responses. In these cases, individuals in the category "non-binary persons" are distributed into the other two gender categories and are denoted by the "+" symbol. “Men+” includes men, as well as some non-binary persons. “Women+” includes women, as well as some non-binary persons.