These two sessions aim to help participants understand the issues involved in measuring and assigning value to the unpaid care economy in Korea. Through an empirical exercise using time-use survey data, participants explore and develop ways of measuring and valuing unpaid care work based on time-use and other data. The goal of estimating unpaid care work is to increase the visibility of care, so that we can better measure the value to unpaid care to show its significance in the economy. This work typically uses time use survey diaries to try and capture all types of care including interactive, support and supervisory care. One major challenge is supervisory care, which is the most difficult to capture. One strategy is to ask, “with whom?” for every activity to see if children are present. There are a few ways to place value on the unpaid care which are largely broken into input and output methods.
Suh, Jooyeoun and Nancy Folbre. 2016. “Valuing unpaid childcare in the U.S.A.: prototype satellite account using the American Time Use Survey.” Review of Income and Wealth, 62(4): 668-684.
Floro, Maria S., and Marjorie Miles. 2003. “Time use, work and overlapping activities: evidence from Australia.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(6): 881-904.
Charmes, Jacques. 2019. “The Unpaid Care Work and the Labour Market. An analysis of time use data based on the latest World Compilation of Time-Use Surveys.” ILO Working Paper. Available at: https://www.ilo.org/gender/Informationresources/Publications/WCMS_732791/lang-- en/index.htm.
Esquivel, Valeria, Debbie Budlender, Nancy Folbre, and Indira Hirway. 2008. “Explorations: Time-use Surveys in the South.” Feminist Economics, 14(3): 107 -152.
The second part of the lecture is a discussion about time use surveys and the data collection methods. Time use surveys can vary in their duration, time slot intervals, and elements included for each activity. The method of collecting the data includes paper light diaries, online/apps, and high-tech camera and GPS trackers.
Floro, Maria S., and Marjorie Miles. 2003. “Time use, work and overlapping activities: evidence from Australia.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(6): 881-904.
Office for National Statistics, UK. 2018. “Household satellite account, UK: 2015 and 2016.” Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/satelliteaccounts/articles/householdsatelliteac counts/2015and2016estimates#methodological-improvements