ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a similar exercise for the urban sector and deals with the allocation of time in urban areas. It explores whether income and the degree of marketisation have the same effect on urban time allocation that they do on rural time allocation. Studies in the seventies and eighties have shown however that urban households in developing countries engage in very different activities from those of a typical industrial household. The existence of farming in urban households on such a scale is the second difference between African urban households and the idealised industrial nuclear household. This difference raises questions about the strategies that urban households employ in order to survive. One of the differences between the idealised industrial household and that of the African urban household is the degree of instability that faces individuals in the informal sector. In both urban and rural areas, there is a positive correlation between time worked and wages earned.
