Abstract
Thirty married couples reported their activity patterns over a typical month by allocating twelve activity categories to a time-based strip chart. This was done independently by husbands and wives. The data were then coded into `conjoint matrices' showing the amount of time spent in each combination of husband's and wife's activities. The conjoint patterns were factor and cluster analysed to show how each person's activities grouped together when the concurrent activity of their partner was taken as the descriptive measure, and to show separately for husbands and wives, on weekdays and weekends, what was the most likely concurrent activity of the partner, for each activity type. This method is put forward as a way of studying the accommodation of daily schedules that partners have to make as part of the routine of their married life.
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