ATUS-Commuting: Stata Code to Calculate Commuting Time in the American Time Use Survey

Linking the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the Compendium of Physical Activities: methods and rationale.

BACKGROUND The 2003 Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey (ATUS) contains 438 distinct primary activity variables that can be analyzed with regard to how time is spent by Americans. The Compendium of Physical Activities is used to code physical activities derived from various surveys, logs, diaries, etc to facilitate comparison of coded intensity levels across studies. METHODS T...

Wellbeing and Data Quality in the American Time Use Survey (atus) from a Total Survey Error Perspective

Increased commuting to school time reduces sleep duration in adolescents.

Active travel to school has been referred to as one way of increasing the level of daily physical exercise, but the actual impacts on student's general health are not clear. Recently, a possible association between active travel to school and the duration of sleep was suggested. Thus, the aim was of this study to investigate the associations between the type of transportation and travel time to...

Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the author's 20.9 lb (9.5 kg) carbon frame bicycle reduced commuting time compared with his 29.75 lb (13.5 kg) steel frame bicycle. DESIGN Randomised trial. SETTING Sheffield and Chesterfield, United Kingdom, between mid-January 2010 and mid-July 2010. PARTICIPANTS One consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Total time to complet...

The Influence of Metropolitan Spatial Structure on Commuting Time*

The monocentric city ultimately becomes inefficient as urban growth continues because of increasing congestion close to the CBD. Although the exhaustion of CBD agglomeration economies is another major reason for the breakdown of monocentricity, these congestion costs are sufficient grounds alone for the emergence of the policentric metropolitan region. Theoretical models of the policentric city...