Leisure  

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Kuroda, Sachiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 10 no. 4 (2013), page 16-23.
Topik: Activities; Market Work; Amount of Time Spent on Leisure; Work-Life Balance
Fulltext: JLR40_kuroda_open.pdf (204.21KB)

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Some people may think leisure is the time left over after market work is subtracted from the 24 hours in a day. From this standpoint, it may be questionable whether statistics on leisure per se need to be collected at all. However, we spend considerable amounts of time on other activities besides market work such as housework, child care and nursing care. This means that if outsourcing and more advanced household appliances help to reduce the amount of time spent on household labor, it is possible for leisure to increase even if hours spent on market work also increase.1 On the other hand, when an aging society causes more people to cut market work so as to care for family members, the decrease in working hours may appear to improve work-life balance, but if the people in question are spending the bulk of their time providing nursing care, they may have little or no actual leisure time. In recent years there has been a lively debate over what sorts of statistics should be collected in order to assess quality of life (for example, Stiglitz, Sen, and Fitoussi [2009], OECD [2011, 2013]). Researchers have varying opinions on whether there is any viable replacement for the GDP (gross domestic product), which has long been the conventional yardstick for prosperity, and on whether it is necessary or appropriate to attempt to quantify happiness. Few would deny that GDP statistics alone do not provide a complete picture of public well-being. For instance, countries where the income effect has led to a decrease in time spent on market work, and people devote a portion of the economic benefits they have reaped to leisure-time activities that do not entail consumption, will lag in terms of GDP behind countries where continually increasing working hours fuel rising consumption. However, the former may well be ahead in terms of well-being. Thus, researchers who examine only statistics on market work to gauge public well-being may end up with a distorted picture of reality. In the future, as we seek to improve quality of life at all levels of society, it will become ever more important to perform comprehensive, multifaceted measurements and examinations of people’s lifestyles. With this in mind, section II examines Japanese statistics useful in assessing leisure from multiple angles, and section III discusses the types of information that can be gleaned from time-use surveys, the most frequently employed method of collecting leisure statistics.

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