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Statistics in Transition New Series
Polish Statistical Association
Central Statistical Office of Poland
Subject: Economics, Statistics & Probability
ISSN: 1234-7655
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EXAMINING SIMILARITIES IN TIME ALLOCATION AMONGST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Marta Hozer-Koćmiel * / Christian Lis *
Keywords : time allocation, cluster analysis, k-means method, generalised distance measure GDM, interval taxonomic method TMI, HETUS survey
Citation Information : Statistics in Transition New Series. Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 317-330, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/stattrans-2016-022
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Published Online: 06-July-2017
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ABSTRACT
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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