Time-use measurements in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2019

Time-use surveys are methodological tools for data collection that allow the activities carried out by people in a given period and the amount of time they spend on each of them to be measured quantitatively. Over the last 40 years, the Regional Gender Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean has driven a gradual development of time-use measurements. Time-use surveys are extremely important because they provide input for the design, formulation, monitoring and evaluation of economic and social equality policies and because of their broad analytical capacity for different areas of research.