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The Use of Time by Farm Women
Title
The Use of Time by Farm Women
Creator
Date
1927
Relation
University of Idaho. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin Number 146
Subject
Excerpt
The object of this investigation was to study the present use of time by homemakers, in order to further the more efficient management of time and to provide a greater amount of leisure. The University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, with this purpose in view, made a survey of the use of time by Idaho homemakers, using the plans and blanks provided by the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The procedure employed in making the study was to get seven-day reports from individual homemakers, in which were listed the activities which engaged their time for each of the seven days. Special blanks were used and the homemaker reported her activities in five- minute units, so that a detailed and complete record was available for the whole 24 hours a day for seven days. These specific entries were then tabulated, being put into 10 major classifications, as follows: Food, House, Clothing, Family, Management, Sleep and Rest, Self, Leisure, Other work, Miscellaneous.
The procedure employed in making the study was to get seven-day reports from individual homemakers, in which were listed the activities which engaged their time for each of the seven days. Special blanks were used and the homemaker reported her activities in five- minute units, so that a detailed and complete record was available for the whole 24 hours a day for seven days. These specific entries were then tabulated, being put into 10 major classifications, as follows: Food, House, Clothing, Family, Management, Sleep and Rest, Self, Leisure, Other work, Miscellaneous.
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