Time for shopping – Social change of time use for shopping activities 1990-2012

Georgios Papastefanou () and David Zajchowski ()
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Georgios Papastefanou: Gesis Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
David Zajchowski: Universität Mannheim

electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2016, vol. 13, issue 1, 109-131

Abstract: The daily shopping, so activities that aim at the acquisition of mainly household-related goods, food and services, is a constituent element of modern consumer society. In addition to the monetary aspect of the extraction of goods and services from the market, the temporal aspect weighs in as opportunity costs for shopping activities, . Against the background of a postulated social change in recent decades that has led to an increase in the daily pace of life, the question is whether and how these accelerating changes have also transformed the time patterns of everyday shopping, such as shopping frequency and shopping time. To investigate this question, data of the time use surveys of the Federal Statistical Office from 1991/92, 2001/02 and 2012/13 is analyzed. The results suggest that both the average shopping frequency as well as the average shopping duration has increased during that period of time. It is discussed how these results are consistent with the hypothesis of an extensive social acceleration.

Keywords: Time-Use; Shopping Activities; Cohort Analysis; Sequence Analysis; Social Change; Social Acceleration; German Time Use Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C40 D01 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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