Time and income poverty

[...]The research on which this report is based used both qualitative and quantitativemethods. In the first phase, a small number of semi-structured interviews were carriedout with people who were juggling work and family responsibilities, and who feltunder both time and income pressure. These interviews gave the researcher someinsight into the nature of the strains that people were under and the strategies theyadopted to deal with the situation. This helped to inform the second, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household survey, carried out by the Office for NationalStatistics, which contains detailed information both about people’s activities throughthe day and week, and about their economic and family circumstances. Analysisincluded the amount of free time and disposable income actually available toindividuals and families, and a simulation of other time-income combinationspotentially available to them. Finally, a number of the respondents from the firstround of interviews were contacted again, about two years after their first contact.[...]