Going Global - Expanding Capacity to Analyse Time Use Data.
From its first incarnation as the Working Group on Time Budgets and Social Activities at the International Sociological Association meeting in Varna, Bulgaria in September 1970, the International Association for Time Use Research has had global interests and attracted a global audience. Two of the first twenty conferences took place in Mexico City (Mexico 1982) and Delhi (India 1986). Early IATUR members hailed from Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Kuwait, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. Nevertheless, until very recently, most time use surveys were collected in the more developed Northern Hemisphere countries (Fisher et. al. 2011). The overwhelming majority or time-relevant publications and papers presented at academic conferences have concentrated on daily activity patterns in Australia, Canada, the USA, European countries, and the more developed North-East Asian countries. While IATUR Regional Council Members have tended to live and work in the regions they represent, until 1992, the Council Member for Africa was based in Europe or North America. Prior to the election of co-Vice-Presidents Lara Gama de Albuquerque Cavalcanti from Brazil and An Xinli () from China in 2011, no member of the IATUR core executive came from the global south.