生活时间调查研究回顾与展望

随着人们对时间认识的不断深入，生活时间成为生活质量的主要测定指标之一。本文在回顾生活时间调查研究发展过程的基础上，重点介绍了日本和中国生活时间调查及研究的现状特征，并对时空间研究进行了展望。

A REVIEW ON TIME-USE SURVEY AND RESEARCH

Time plays a more and more important role in our life. It records our activities and can balance our life. Time-use is becoming one index of quality of life. With this background, this paper introduces the history of time-use survey and research by three stages, and focuses on contemporary development of this research in Japan and China. In the end, tendencies in this field are put up. Time-use approach has been and will further be extended to various fields, especially sociology, economics and geography. The concept of time-space will bring about a boom of borderline subjects, and enrich our understanding of this world we have and we make use of.