On June 1 and 2, 2026, the Palau Robert in Barcelona hosted the seminar “Results, analysis and reflections on the 2024 Time Use Survey”, organized by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia as part of the 2nd Idescat Meeting with Analysts and Users. The meeting brought together researchers, technicians, and professionals from various institutions to present and discuss the main results of the 2024 Time Use Survey from various analytical, territorial, and social perspectives.
The Mobility, Transport and Territory Studies Group (GEMOTT) was present through the participation of Oriol Roig, a researcher from the group, who spoke in the session “Geographical analysis of the results,” held on Tuesday, June 2, and moderated by Joan García, from the Centre for Demographic Studies.
His presentation, titled “Who moves and how much time it takes: a reading of daily mobility based on the 2024 Time Use Survey,” proposed an approach to daily mobility from the perspective of time use. The analysis focused on time spent on travel and the category “travel and unspecified time use,” with the aim of exploring how travel is integrated into the temporal organization of daily life.
Throughout the two days, the seminar highlighted the potential of the Time Use Survey to analyze central issues of contemporary daily life, such as domestic and care work, gender inequalities, time poverty, the life cycle, health, rest, physical activity, sustainability, and public time policies. Within this framework, daily mobility was addressed as another dimension of the social organization of time, often situated on the margins of statistical classifications, but fundamental to understanding how people articulate their daily activities, access resources, and manage their daily responsibilities.
GEMOTT’s participation in the session dedicated to the geographical analysis of the results contributed to reinforcing this territorial and relational perspective on time use. Along with other contributions focused on territorial differences, gender inequalities in Barcelona, and the temporal limits of sustainability, the presentation allowed for travel to be positioned as a key piece in understanding urban inequalities and the daily distribution of time.
With this contribution, GEMOTT reinforces its interest in the study of mobility not only as a functional practice but also as a structural dimension of daily life, closely linked to social, territorial, and gender inequalities.
