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How Americans spend their time

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ATUS

Analysis of the American Time Use Survey.

Analyses


To-do list

Data search and programming

  • Find the right data
  • Consolidate similar features
  • Build generic function to apply proper weights to inputed groupings
  • Double check specific activities are categorized correctly (e.g. travel should not include commuting)
  • Pull out sleep from Personal Care
  • Integrate multi-year data
  • Consolidate trend code to a single .R file

Trend explorations

  • Summarize of activities by age
  • Summarize of activities by age and working status
  • What activities are more indicative of income
  • Do higher income people work more or less
  • Waiting associated with working / Waiting associated with work-related activities
  • Work, other job(s)
  • Rank sports by income
  • Waiting by income
  • Security related to attending sporting events / Security procedures rel. to arts & entertainment
  • Houseplants
  • Time spent job searching
  • Leisure by region
  • Computer use

Sequence analysis

  • Consolidate activities to core items and convert to strings
  • Calculate stringdist and cluster

Plots

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How Americans spend their time

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