Women's and children's activity profiles in Senegal and Mexico
Subtitle: a comparison of time allocation and time allocation methods
By: by Ellen Messer and Marianne N. Bloch.
Contributors: Bloch, Marianne N.
Series: Working paper / Michigan State University ;; #42; Working paper (Michigan State University. Office of Women in International Development) ;; #42.
Publisher: Michigan State University
Published: 1983
Place of publication: [East Lansing, Mich.] (202 International Center, East Lansing 48824)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Mothers -- Time management -- Research.; Children -- Time management -- Research.; Mothers -- Time management -- Research -- Senegal.; Mothers -- Time management -- Research -- Mexico.; Children -- Time management -- Research -- Senegal.; Children -- Time management -- Research -- Mexico.
Description: This paper evaluates two methods for collecting time allocation data to describe women's and children's activities in two modernizing societies. Drawing on ethnographic field studies by the authors, it compares the research questions, data, results, and interpretations that can be made by means of spot versus day-long narrative observations. This paper, written jointly by a psychologist and an anthropologist, thus compares two methods and varying results obtained on the effect of different cash/occupational choices of mothers on their household activities and interactions with children.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 13-15.
"December 1983."