This is a study which has been conducted over the past 50 years; unlike other surveys, it has been carried out by consumers affiliated with the Zenkoku-Tomo-no-kai themselves and not by experts or researchers.　The study has the following characteristics: ① An objective survey to discover problems and encourage changes in various lifestyles; ② Although it was shown that household work took an extremely long time and that sleeping hours were short, compared with the NHK survey, there seemed to be little concern on the part of the Tomo-no-kai participants; ③ The ideal that the Tomo-no-kai has held, that is, to retain a “standard time schedule”. In surveying “time usage”, society has been viewed from the point of the “high household-oriented consumer-housewife”, pointing out problems and suggesting solutions.　Moreover, in the lifestyle index, it was revealed that there were two different types, one dependent on an ideal and unified index presented by some authority, and the other an average dependent on having realized an ideal. The latter showed that it would lead to more self-controlled improvement oriented results.