ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the time budget researchers and analyses the variables which influence the amount and use of non-working time. Time budget research, like public opinion research, played an historical role in the growth of Soviet sociology. The problem of ascertaining how an individual utilizes his/her non-working time had become one of great practical concern in the Soviet Union. The basic unit of the time budget studies was the type of work: each study was billed as the non-working time of workers, engineering, and technical personnel, office workers, or kolkhozniks. By the end of 1960, the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences held the first conference on the problem of non-working time of working people. Comparison with the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences' multi-national research work indicates other problems in Soviet time budget research.
