Samme tendens til at kritisere metodens ideologiske substruktion er begyndt at vise sig i Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland (BLASS 1980), skønt tidsbudgetter ikke har været særlig anvendt der.
The global-scale time budget method was developed in the Netherlands before the Second World War (Blonk et al., 1936) but has only been revived in recent years, having been used for a study of the structure of time utilization by Netherlands citizens during one week (Knuist 1977).