Analyses daily schedules of work-time patterns of individuals in Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden and examines how work patterns are organized in the four countries.

This paper examines trends in parental time in selected industrialized countries since the 1960s using time-use survey data. Despite the time pressures to which today’s families are confronted, parents appear to be devoting more time to children than they did some 40 years ago. Results also...