Open AccessGetting Started with Time-Use Dat
Author(s) -
Jay Stewart
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of time use research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2664-7958
DOI - 10.32797/jtur-2018-2
Subject(s) - snapshot (computer storage) , time use survey , time of day , sample (material) , computer science , names of the days of the week , day to day , statistics , data science , operations management , database , space time , mathematics , engineering , zoology , linguistics , chemistry , philosophy , chromatography , chemical engineering , biology
Time-use data have unique characteristics that make it different from other types of household survey data. Single-day time use surveys provide a detailed snapshot of a person’s activities on the diary day. But the large amount of day-to-day variation in the amount of time spent in various activities means that activities done on the diary day do not reflect the person’s long-run time use. Thus, time-use data is a sample of person-days, not a sample of people. This feature of time-use data has implications for its analysis.