Clustering Households by Time Use Patterns - An empirical investigation using the German Time Use Survey

Clustering individuals or households on the basis of socio-economic variables has become awidespread practice in German social research over the past few decades. This paper is part ofa research project that explores results which may be obtained when time use patterns arechosen as the basis of numerical classification. Over the past few years, results relating tosingle households were published by the authors. The present paper extends the analysis tofamilies.[...]

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Year of publication:	2009-09-01
Authors:	Grossmann, Stéphanie
Institutions:	Institut für Ökonomische Bildung <Münster, Westfalen>
Subject:	Haushalt \| Household \| Cluster \| number of clusters \| Profil

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1. Introduction
2. Description of the data used for the investigation
3. Classification
3.1 Calculation of a distance matrix
3.2 The cluster analysis
3.3 Results
3.4 Modal day-courses
4. Socioeconomic description
5. Explanatory power of cluster-affiliations in a socio-economic context
6. Conclusions and future research

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