Held March 21-23 of 2002 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

TIME PRESSURE, WORK-FAMILY INTERFACE, AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS:
Social & health implications of time use     

Conference Papers, Participants and Links

  

Message from the Organising Committee:
 The conference focused on the effects of current social-economic trends on time use, parent-child relationships, population well-being, and health.

Who Attended
The conference brought together researchers working in academic institutions, government organisations, and officials involved with population health, family policies, and youth-related concerns.

Conference Objectives
The conference included presentations on trends in work-family and parent-child relationships based on national time diary, population health, experience sampling, and other survey data collected over the past 15 to 20 years in Canada, Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy,  Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, U.K., and U.S.

Invited speakers included a number of leading, internationally recognised, researchers.
Conference Organisers
The event was organised by the Research Group for the Study of Time Use, Life Stress and Work-Family Interface (University of Waterloo) in co-operation with the International Association for Time Use Research, Policy Research Initiative (Ottawa), Health Canada (Ottawa), and Statistics Canada (Ottawa).  

 

  

Dr. Jiri Zuzanek
Dr. Roger Mannell
Ms. Lisa Wenger
University of Waterloo
Tel: (519) 888-4567 ext. 2652
Email: zuzanek@healthy.uwaterloo.ca

 

Mr. Jeff Frank
Policy Research Initiative
Tel: (613) 947-3905
Email: j.frank@prs-srp.gc.ca

 

Dr. Andrew Harvey
International Association for Time Use Research
Tel: (902) 420-5676
E-mail: andrew.harvey@stmarys.ca

 
Advisory committee: Theo Beckers (University of Tilburg, Netherlands), Satya Brink (Human Resources Development Canada), Kerry Daly (University of Guelph, Canada), Reed Larson (University of Illinois, U.S.), William Michelson (University of Toronto, Canada), Fraser Mustard (Founders Network), Iiris Niemi (Statistics Finland), Doug Norris (Statistics Canada), John Robinson (University of Maryland, U.S.)

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