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标题：Visualizing multinational daily life via multidimensional scaling (MDS)
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作者：John P. Robinson ; Jonathan Gershuny
期刊名称：Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
电子版ISSN：1860-9937
出版年度：2013
卷号：10
页码：76-90
出版社：University of Lueneburg
摘要：One of the notable innovations in social-science methodology developed during the 1960s was Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS). MDS made it possible for social scientists to discover, uncover or model the underlyingspatial structure of relations between various social collectives (like countries or communities), socialobjects (like music or artifacts) or social attitudes. One early application of MDS described the dimensionalcontours of Americans’ views of other countries in terms of “perceptual maps of the world”. More recently, ithas been used to map country differences in the World Values Survey. Spurred by its initial successful applications,MDS was extended to time-diary data collected in the pioneering 1965 Multinational Time-Budget Study,in which it again provided insightful portrayals of daily activity across the 15 national settings in that study. Thispresent article updates and extends these results by applying MDS methods to the most recent diary collection inthe Oxford University MTUS data archive – covering more than 20 (mainly European) countries. Once again,the result was plausible (but somewhat different) configurations again emerged from MDS visualizations. Moreover,these mappings were compatible with conclusions from the 1965 mapping and with earlier more conventionalanalyses.
关键词：Time diaries; Multidimensional Scaling; Multinational comparisions; Social change