Smartphone or tablet-based time use surveys can passively collect data such as geolocation for activities and periods when the device was in use.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed studies and survey methodology papers describing passive GPS/sensor data collection in smartphone-based time use surveys, across different research teams and countries.
Sources
- Studying how people spend their time reveals how societies differ and change over time (theconversation.com)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0894439319877872 (journals.sagepub.com)
- https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7385 (ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11116-024-10546-w (link.springer.com)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41810331/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://surveyinsights.org/?p=13330 (surveyinsights.org)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.11940 (arxiv.org)