Online Time Use Survey (OTUS)- Wave 5 - AWARD

Contract summary

Industry

• Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£0 to £375,000

Procurement reference

IT-333-3413-PU-23-0068 - AWARD

Published date

23 November 2022

Closing date

28 July 2022

Closing time

4:35pm

Contract start date

30 August 2022

Contract end date

31 October 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The OTUS (Online Time Use Survey) has been designed in response to decades of research and high-profile international reviews assessing the limitations of economic statistics in measuring a country's economic growth. For example, the report by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi (2009) and the Independent Review of Economic Statistics in the UK (Bean, 2016) suggested shifting measurement systems away from economic production (for example, GDP) and towards measuring people's wellbeing instead.  

The OTUS was proposed as a preferred means of measuring productivity. Not only did it reframe productivity away from traditional economic production values, but it also had the potential to measure a range of unpaid work, unlike GDP. This included everything from looking after children and doing household chores to using digital platforms to organise holidays (as opposed to using travel agents).  

-To test if it is possible to measure time-use online in a representative and cost-effective manner. 

-To track the real-time changes occurring in an unprecedented period of behavioural change due to COVID

-To understand the extent of unpaid work in the economy and its distribution between demographics (for example, the gender gap).  

-To gauge whether time-use could be useful for more complete measures of paid work by incorporating aspects of gig-economy (for example delivery or taxi services such as Deliveroo and Uber) and sharing economy (for example online markets such as Ebay and Airbnb). 

-To understand the feasibility of collecting information on device use and related measures such as screen-time, as well as how digital service provision is changing people's habits and who is benefitting from them. 

The OTUS consists of an online diary tool and a demographic questionnaire. The diary tool is filled out online, and respondents are asked to fill out a diary for one weekday and one weekend day. The diary tool records 79 different activities people spend time on, as well as other measurements such as their enjoyment, device use, partial location, and wider caring responsibilities. The demographic questionnaire is completed at any time alongside the diary tool, and records data about the respondents such as sex, ethnicity and age, as well as measuring people's subjective well-being, such as their happiness, life satisfaction and anxiety. 

ONS is looking for a survey agency to administer at least one wave (wave 5) with the possibility of two additional waves if funding becomes available (waves 6 & 7) of the OTUS on ONS' behalf. Wave 5 will be for the period between mid-October 2022 to early December 2022, directing a representative sample of respondents to an online website diary instrument that's currently developed and hosted by another third-party provider.

The supplier will be responsible for providing a sample, making initial contact with individuals in the sample, following up non-responder...

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Award information

Awarded date

24 August 2022

Contract start date

30 August 2022

Contract end date

31 October 2023

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

NatCen Social Research

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About the buyer

Contact name

Clare Jones

Address

Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
United Kingdom

Telephone

01633 651633

Email

clare.jones@ons.gov.uk