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How does the coronavirus affect daily life? In many countries, strict measures have been taken to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Many of these measures are expected to affect our daily lives significantly. We aim to find out how exactly. Go to https://www.everydaylife.eu and take part.
The Source TM-project is being presented during the Workshop held on the 18th of March 2020 in Luxembourg.
Fact-checking by Oxfam and Knack Of all the work done by Belgian women, 56 percent is unpaid. It’s about cleaning, cooking, taking care of the children, doing the dishes, and so on. For men, 36 percent of the working time is unpaid,’ said Maaike Vanmeerhaeghe in response to the Oxfam report ‘Time to care’. The figure comes from the Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum, which in turn used the ‘Harmonised European Time Survey for Belgium’. In her ‘Factchecker’ section, Knack checked whether this is indeed true…
Literature? There is not so much information to be found in literature about the meaning of ‘Smart Surveys’ and ‘Trusted Surveys’. Therefore we need to define both terms. Smart surveys Smart surveys are those surveys where respondents are asked to use Smart devices to complete a survey. Smart devices are Smartphones, tablets or wearables. ‘To complete’ a survey means: fill in a survey, or provide data via relevant sensors or via existing datasets The first option is an active participation, the second a rather passive participation. For both options an…
The four W’s Monday is show-and-tell day in Kindergarten of the primary school in Sydney that my oldest child attends, but instead of just blathering about what happened in their weekends, the preschool children are taught to present their adventures in a structured way. To do so, they follow the principle of the four W’s. The four W’s represent four questions that the children should address in order to provide a comprehensive story of their weekend experiences. These four questions are: What did you do? Where did you go? When…
Studies reveal that using time-diary data to measure physical activity matches the results of using devices or validated questionnaires.
Shaping daily life There is an ongoing sociological debate whether daily behaviour is determined by social structures (e.g. temporal norms) or by individuals (e.g. when fulfilling their needs). Probably, the truth lies somewhere in between. On the one hand, temporal rhythms structure our society, as there are shop opening hours, working times, school times, mealtimes, bedtimes, and so on. This is the temporal context. On the other hand, individuals have different social roles (e.g. employee, parent, friend), that tomen with different responsibilities. These are individual needs. Daily life gets shaped…
Manageable by reduction More than 90% of all available data was generated in recent years. This relates to the traces that we leave behind when we go online. Via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others – as well as through our surfing and viewing habits, purchasing behaviour, use of media, travel details and so on. So how does this stream of data become manageable? Datamining and mathematical algorithms reduce the data to movements and forms of behaviour that apply to a large group of people. There are applications in various areas:…
New framework, new design Mobile apps are gradually becoming the norm. Developing these apps requires a high-quality framework. So we turned to Ionic for the new Motus app. Why? Ionic is an HTML5 framework built on Google’s AngularJS platform. The previous MOTUS app was based on Cordava and Phonegap. Excellent software, but not very flexible for the app. Now, with the qualities of Ionic under the bonnet, we have also upgraded the design of the app. Faster, better, easier At the same time we have also tackled some of the…
The end of the gender revolution? The gender revolution appears to be stagnating. That was the conclusion of previous analyses based on Belgian time use data conducted from 1999 and 2005. But with new data from 2013 now available, the question again was: how (un)stable are gender stereotypes in everyday life? The research was conducted by Theun Pieter van Tienoven, a partner at hbits. He was commissioned to carry out the work by the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men and in conjunction with the Statistics Belgium division…
A look at time for everyone With the launch of www.tijdsonderzoek.be we are able to provide an overview of the way the population of Flanders spends its time for a large group of interested parties: journalists, students, researchers, marketeers, you and me – and so on. Make your own tables Users of the website can use tables that they make themselves to reveal the way the people of Flanders spend their time on a daily and weekly basis. They can also subdivide the time into a number of relevant background…
