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Chinese People’s Time Use and Their Quality of Life

Research Report of Chinese Time Use Survey

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Authors:
  1. Fenglian Du

    1. School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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  2. Wenbin Wang

    1. China Time Use Survey and Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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  3. Xiaoyuan Dong

    1. Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

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  • Collects the results of the Chinese Time Use Survey
  • Provides rich and detailed descriptions of the time use patterns and characteristics of Chinese residents
  • Uses the data, analytic perspective and format which will give readers a better understanding

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Tracing the Footsteps of Time: Survey Methods and Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Survey Method

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 3-12

    3. Time Use Overview

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 13-47

  3. The Busy Chinese: Balancing Work and Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Overtime Workers

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 51-57

    3. Gender Differences in Unpaid Labor

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 59-82

    4. Women Returning to the Family

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 83-104

  4. Winning at the Starting Line: Education and Development in China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Equity in Educational from the Perspective of the Time Use of School-Age Children

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 107-122

    3. Education Equity in Light of Families’ Time Investment in Childcare

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 123-144

    4. Are Children Sleep-Deprived?

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 145-158

    5. “Happy” College Students

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 159-175

  5. After Work: The Pursuit of Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Social Difference in Leisure and Social Activities

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 179-197

    3. Are the Elderly in China Well-Entertained?

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 199-217

    4. The Chinese Couple

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 219-240

    5. Impact of Phones on Residents’ Time Use

      • Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong
      Pages 241-262
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About this book

This book analyzes how Chinese people use their time, including how busy Chinese seek a healthy work-life balance, how some children win from the outset in terms of education, and how people pursue quality of life outside of or after work. General readers will get a vivid and detailed impression of the way Chinese people spend their time, while researchers will find a wealth of phenomena and data for analysis from both economic and social perspectives. The research presented here was conducted in the context of the Chinese Time Use Survey (CTUS), a nationwide initiative launched by Inner Mongolia University in 2017. The CTUS covers 29 Chinese provinces, and the database contains the time use information of 30,591 people aged 3 years and over from 12,471 households. The survey collects information at three main levels: personal, family and community.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

    Fenglian Du

  • China Time Use Survey and Research Center, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

    Wenbin Wang

  • Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

    Xiaoyuan Dong

About the authors

Fenglian Du, professor of economics, doctoral supervisor, Sino-US Fulbright Program visiting scholar,vice president of Inner Mongolia University, dean of School of Economics and Management of Inner Mongolia University, director of Survey and Research Center for China Time Use of Inner Mongolia University. Selected by the "New Century Excellent Talents Plan" of the Ministry of Education and State-Council Allowance Expert. Her research fields are labor market issues and regional industrial development. Her papers have been published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Economy, China Population Resources and Environment and other journals. Currently, her main research fields are time utilization, intergenerational transmission of education and economy and regional coordinated development. 


Wenbin Wang, Ph.D. of Economics, deputy director of China Time Use Survey and Research Center of Inner Mongolia University. His research field are labor economics, time use economics and urban economics.



Xiaoyuan Dong, professor of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Winnipeg, associate editor-in-chief of Feminist Economics, member of International Association for Feminist Economics. Her research areas are China's economic transformation, labor market, gender and women's status. Her articles have been published in many international core academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Feminist Economics and so on. Her current research areas are unpaid care, time use, social gender, etc. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chinese People’s Time Use and Their Quality of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Research Report of Chinese Time Use Survey

  • Authors: Fenglian Du, Wenbin Wang, Xiaoyuan Dong

  • Translated by: Yu Guan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5526-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: China Social Sciences Press 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5525-1Published: 27 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5528-2Due: 28 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5526-8Published: 26 September 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research, Demography, Community and Environmental Psychology, Sociology of Culture

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