Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center

1.1.6 Time Use Indicators for Measuring National Well-being

Maria Nagernyak
Project Leader

Natalya Voronina
Project Leader

Project period

2021-2025

Context of Research Project within a Subject of Human Capital

Developing research in the field of labor economics, studying factors influencing the increase in economic growth, as well as the criticism of the GDP figure as the main indicator of national progress has led to the active introduction of the concepts of human potential, human capital and human development into the scientific context of creating integrated systems of welfare assessments for countries and regions.

The research project Wellbeing Assessment and Time-Use Budgets focuses on the development of well-being assessment system for Russia with the possibility of regional comparisons. The project pays special attention to time use, as one of the central topics in the well-being assessment research agenda.

Project Aim

Studying the use of time budgets as an integral part of the well-being assessment, create a comprehensive system of well-being indicators for Russia with the regard to the best international practices.

Project Objectives:

  1. Actualizing information about available data for measuring well-being domains in Russia and developing recommendations for creating new data (objective assessments, subjective assessments, big data)
  2. Testing the system of indicators based on the data of the survey of the Russian population as a whole and clarifying the concept of the well-being assessment system
  3. Creating guidelines for the well-being assessment system in Russia
  4. Studying the structure of the time use in Russia, identification of sustainable forms of time use by key socio-demographic groups, assess and analyze gender gap factors in the use of work time, family time and other types of time in  Russia

Key Findings

2020

The research project has been implemented since 2021

2021

The analysis of time use in Russia as a component of a well-being assessment has been carried out. Tendencies in the time use for some social groups (including the example of working women with children in Russia) under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic have been revealed

2022

Estimates of the time spent by Russians on the main types of activities have been obtained. Trends in the use of time budgets in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been analyzed, taking into account the persistence of a serious gender gap in the amount of time spent on unpaid work, blurred boundaries between working and non-working time associated with the spread of remote employment formats, predominance of online communication with friends and relatives over the traditional format of communication, as well as development of digital format as a full-fledged alternative for cultural content consumption

Продолжительность основных активностей россиян в течение суток (в минутах).

Источник: «Повседневные практики населения: потребительский выбор и бюджеты времени», НИУ ВШЭ

Publications

Report Social Protection in Russia Before and After the Pandemic: Forks of the Future (RU). Authors: E. Andreeva, S. Biryukova, N. Voronina, E. Gorvat, E. Gorina, A. Goryainova, D. Kareva, M. Nagernyak, E. Nazarbayeva, A. Pishnyak, D. Pomazkin, D. Popova, E. Selezneva, O. Sinyavskaya, S. Ter-Akopov, M. Ustinova, N. Khalina. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Institute of Social Policy, Moscow: HSE, 2022.

Conferences

XXIII Yasin (April) International Scientific Conference on Problems of Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia, April 5-22, 2022): round table Social and Economic Inequality: Current Research Agenda (04/05/2022): Nagernyak М., Voronina N. Gender Inequality in Household Labor Division