On May 14, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Would it be fair to conclude from the discussion that the official
> statistics, which register a historical decline in hours of work,
> are still
> misleading in that they don't capture the huge volume of unrecorded
> and
> unpaid hours of work that many workers, predominantly those at the
> higher
> education and income levels, perform at home or elsewhere outside
> their
> workplace and their regularly scheduled working hours?
This is one of the reasons the BLS started the time use survey. For the productivity series, they only have hard data for the number of hours worked by production/nonsupervisory workers (about 80% of the private workforce). They've been imputing supervisory hours based on the production worker numbers and some 1970s-vintage survey data; the time use survey is supposed to update that.
For the ambitious, the microdata can be downloaded from <http:// www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles_2005.htm>.
Doug