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Time spent watching television - 2017
Description
This is a data set detailing TV usage on days surveyed as determined by the 2017 American Time Use Survey. The data set includes demographic information, as well as details regarding employment and family makeup, where applicable. Information on days surveyed, as well as whether the day is a holiday, is also included.
Usage
tv
Format
A data frame with 10,223 rows and 21 variables. The variables are as follows:
- id
ID of respondent
- weight
ATUS final weight
- youngest_child
Age of the youngest child in the household that is less than 18 years old (if applicable). Range: 1-17; if no child in household: NA
- age
Age of respondent
- sex
Sex of respondent
- job
Status of employment of the respondent. Direct transcription from original codebook: 1 = Employed, at work, 2 = Employed, absent, 3 = Unemployed, on layoff, 4 = Unemployed, looking, 5 = Not in the labor force.
- m_job
The response to question, “in the last seven days did you have more than one job?” Returns NA if no job.
- f_job
Does the respondent have a full time job or a part time job? (NA if no job)
- educ
Are you enrolled in high school, college, or university? (NA if not currently enrolled)
- educ2
If yes to educ, are you enrolled in high school or upper schooling? (NA if not currently enrolled)
- partner
Presence of the respondent's spouse or unmarried partner in the household with 1 = Spouse present 2 = Unmarried partner present 3 = No spouse/unmarried partner present
- pr_job
Answer to the question, “does your partner have a job?” (NA if not applicable)
- salary
Weekly earnings at the respondent’s main job, two decimals implied
- children
Number of children under 18 in the household
- pr_job_f
Part time/full time job status of partner, if applicable (NA if partner unemployed or no partner)
- job_hours
Total hours usually worked per week (-4: Hours vary)
- day
Day of the week about which the respondent was interviewed (Monday thorugh Friday)
- holiday
Notes if the respondent was interviewed on a holiday
- elder_care
Total time spent providing elder care that day by the respondent, in minutes
- child_time
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for household children younger than 13, in minutes
- tv
Minutes spent watching TV
Details
For more information regarding the key visit https://www.bls.gov/tus/atusintcodebk17.pdf. This data is retrieved from the American Time Use Survey, made available through the Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles_2017.htm.
Examples
summary(tv)
hist(tv$tv, col="skyblue")