Abstract
The periodic sample surveys conducted by the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR on the time “budgets” of the population are of great importance for studies on the utilization of working time, the shortening of periods spent unproductively or wasted, the increase in free time through the development of the service sector, the shortening and lightening of the work of housekeeping, improvement of the modes and organization of leisure and relaxation, creation of better conditions for bringing up children, and the influence of raising of the population's material and cultural level on changes in the pattern of utilization of working and non-working time.
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