Statistics Canada releases “Time use in Canada: Interactive visualization tool”

Statistics Canada has released an interactive tool that presents an overview of how Canadians use their time. It uses data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, and uses tempograms to display the distribution of the main activities of Canadians over the course of a day. Users can view the data by type of day (weekday or weekend) and compare by gender or various age groups. Statistics Canada hopes that this tool will be useful for journalists, researchers, and policymakers who want to explore data on time use in a new, visual way.

Notably for researchers focused on care work, the tool includes “unpaid care” as an activity group, which it defines as “care done for household members or family members (of any age).” Users are able to compare time spent doing unpaid care across genders and age groups.

For researchers who have experience with sequence analysis, the table used to create this tool may also be of interest. It provides participation rates and confidence intervals for each five-minute interval.

Please also note that the Public Use Microdata File of the 2022 Time Use Survey will be released in March 2025.

You can explore the tool below, or access it via the Statistics Canada page, which includes additional information.