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1 Exploratory analysis of differences between men and women in time and travel task allocation 2 patterns and time-space prism accessibility in dual income households with and without children 3 4 Seo Youn Yoon 5 GeoTrans Lab. 6 Department of Geography 7 University of California, Santa Barbara 8 Phone: 805-893-3867 9 Email: yoon@geog.ucsb.edu 10 11 and 12 13 Konstadinos G. Goulias 14 GeoTrans Lab. 15 Department of Geography 16 University of California, Santa Barbara 17 Phone: 805-308-2837, Fax: 805-284-1597 18 Email: goulias@geog.ucsb.edu 19 20 ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the intra-household interaction between husband and wife in dual 21 income households and explores the difference of time and task allocation patterns between households 22 that have children and households that do not have children. We identified thirteen distinct intra-23 household interaction patterns in allocating household tasks between husband and wife using latent class 24 cluster analysis: six for couples without children and seven for couples with one child. One of the 25 important differences between the clusters is that couples without children plan in-home activities and 26 out-of-home independent activities on the same day or pursue joint activities together, but in households 27 with one child, tasks such as providing ride for child, spending time with child for out-of-home activities, 28 and purchasing activities are allocated either to the wife or to the husband leading to significantly 29 different patterns and therefore clusters. In addition, our analysis on time-space prism accessibility for 30 each cluster shows that men and women seem to go through different transitions in terms of accessibility 31 when they have children. The clusters clearly indicate that wives are more likely allocate their time for 32 children in different ways than their husbands do, and this result implies that the way individuals 33 experience the environments may be systematically different depending on their roles. Therefore, a more 34 individualized and contextual approach is needed about household time and task allocation and 35 accessibility. At the end of this paper, a few suggestions for further research and policy analyses about 36 women’s travel and accessibility are provided. 37 KEYWORDS: Time and task allocation, intra-household interaction, time-space prism accessibility, 38 double income households, latent class cluster analysis 39 Number of Words = 5,853 (body) + 1,500 (4 tables and 2 figures) = 7,353 40 For consideration for presentation at the 91st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board and 41 publication in the Transportation Research Record 1 TRB 2012 Annual Meeting Paper revised from original submittal.
