Summary: | The Americans' Use of Time series data
were gathered as part of a multinational time budget project
and consist of several datasets: AMERICANS' USE OF TIME,
1965-1966 (ICPSR 7254), TIME USE IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
ACCOUNTS, 1975-1976 [ICPSR 7580], AMERICANS' USE OF TIME,
1965-1966, AND TIME USE IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTS,
1975-1976: MERGED DATA [ICPSR 7796], AMERICANS' USE OF
TIME, 1985 (9875), TIME USE LONGITUDINAL PANEL STUDY,
1975-1981 (9054), and FAMILY INTERACTION, SOCIAL CAPITAL,
AND TRENDS IN TIME USE (FISCT), 1998-1999: [UNITED STATES]
(ICPSR 3191). They contain single-day time personal diary,
mail-back, and telephone interview data. The diaries
consist of primary and secondary single-day activities.
The files contain data on the estimates of daily time use
by Americans, comprising work and nonwork leisure activities,
as well as sociodemographic data. The FISCT 1998-1999 study
contains data from 24-hour time diaries probing several indicators
of social capital and life quality, gathered to update prior time
series on how Americans spend time. The studies partly represent
an attempt to apply recent methodological developments in the
measurement of time use to a national probability sample of United
States households in order to facilitate development of a fully
articulated system of economic and social accounts. The time budget
project focus included the following substantive and methodological
areas: (1) time spent in social interaction, particularly parental
time with children, (2) measurement problems in time estimates,
(3) activity and social interaction patterns of elderly Americans,
and (4) time spent on the Internet and effects on social isolation
and other media usage. |
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