Open AccessExamining Similarities in Time Allocation Amongst European Countries
Author(s) -
Marta Hozer-Koćmiel,
Christian Lis
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
statistics in transition new series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2450-0291
pISSN - 1234-7655
DOI - 10.21307/stattrans-2016-022
Subject(s) - time allocation , cluster (spacecraft) , interval (graph theory) , distribution (mathematics) , order (exchange) , measure (data warehouse) , econometrics , work (physics) , leisure time , computer science , operations research , geography , statistics , mathematics , economics , sociology , data mining , social science , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , physical activity , physical medicine and rehabilitation , combinatorics , programming language , finance
The aim of the article is to analyse the similarities between the selected European countries in terms of time allocation. Time allocation has been defined as the daily distribution of time to various activities. Professional work time, domestic work time and leisure time are the most important for the economic approach. It has been proved that there are coherent groups of countries with similar structure of time allocation. The taxonomic methods used in order to verify the thesis included: cluster analysis, k-means method, generalised distance measure GDM and interval taxonomic method TMI. The analysis was performed on the basis of HETUS data.
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