American Time Use Survey (ATUS): Arts Activities, [United States], 2003-2018

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 2018, 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, 201,151 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组织实施的、关于时间使用情况的连续性调查。该跨年度数据收集项目记录了2003年至2018年间民众参与各类活动所花费的时间（以分钟计），涉及的研究主题范围远超本研究的艺术活动领域。然而，本项研究仅聚焦于特定一天内个体在所有类型活动上的时间分配。在此次数据收集过程中，从完成了第八个月及最终访谈的 Current Population Survey（CPS）受访者子集中，随机选取了201,151位受访者。每个家庭仅随机选择一位15岁或以上的受访者参与。受访者被要求就前一天从凌晨4点开始至访谈当天凌晨4点结束的时间使用情况进行一次访谈。ATUS将活动划分为18个一级类别。每个一级类别包含多个二级类别，提供第二层分类。总体而言，共有96个二级类别，平均每个一级类别有5个子类别。总计，ATUS包含424个独特的活动代码，由六位数的分类代码指定。此外，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。