American Time Use Survey (ATUS): Arts Activities, [United States], 2003-2019

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is the Nation's first federally administered, continuous survey on time use in the United States. This multi-year data collection contains information on the amount of time (in minutes) that people spent doing various activities in the years 2003 through 2019, and asks about a much broader range of topics covered than just what is in this study, which focuses on arts activities. But this particular study focuses solely upon the time spent on a given day in all types of activity. For this data collection, 210,586 respondents were randomly selected from a subset of households that completed their eighth and final month of interviews for the Current Population Survey (CPS). Only one respondent per household, aged 15 or older, was randomly selected to participate. Respondents were interviewed one time about how they spent their time on the previous day starting at 4:00 a.m. and ending at 4:00 a.m. on the interview day. The ATUS classifies activities into 18 Tier 1 categories. Each Tier 1 category contains multiple Tier 2 categories providing a second level of classification. Overall there are 96 Tier 2 categories with the average being 5 sub-classifications per Tier 1 category. In total, the ATUS contains 424 unique activity codes designated by a six digit classification code. Additionally, the study provides demographic information--including sex, age, ethnicity, race, education, employment, and children in the household.