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.

美国时间使用调查（ATUS）系美国首次由联邦政府管理的、针对时间使用的持续调查。该跨年度数据收集项目涵盖了从2003年至2019年间人们从事各种活动所花费的时间（以分钟为单位）的信息，并询问了比本研究所涵盖的主题更为广泛的内容，本研究所关注的是艺术活动。然而，该特定研究仅专注于在特定一天内所有类型活动的耗时。对于此次数据收集，共随机选取了210,586名受访者，他们来自已完成当前人口调查（CPS）第八和最后一个月访谈的住户子集。每户仅随机选取一名15岁或以上的受访者参与。受访者被询问前一天从凌晨4点开始至访谈当天凌晨4点结束的时间使用情况。ATUS将活动分为18个一级类别。每个一级类别包含多个二级类别，提供了第二层分类。总计有96个二级类别，平均每个一级类别有5个次级分类。总体而言，ATUS包含由六位数字分类代码指定的424个独特活动代码。此外，该研究还提供了人口统计学信息，包括性别、年龄、种族、民族、教育、就业状况以及家庭中的儿童情况。