ABSTRACT
Time-use analysis provides a useful bridge to link qualitative and quantitative phenomena, in the process assisting with the expansion of explanation beyond time itself and into the greater substance of the social sciences. Chapter 5 pursued that theme by examining the extent that qualitative purposes are served by the degree of access in the collection of time-use materials to subjective and evaluative information from time-use respondents. Access to subjective data within episodes showed that men and women have different experiences of roughly similar quantitative tendencies because the overall patterns of their days are not equivalent. Patterns matter. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Stress may be attached to the patterning of everyday life, not just as a reflection of a single kind of activity placed under the spotlight, however salient in and of itself.
