Health-related Activities in the American Time Use Survey
Katharine G. Abraham, I. Russell, and Y. Ibuka
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45
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Medical Care
680-685
July
2007
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey (ATUS), launched in 2003, offers the first comprehensive look at how individuals spend their time. Health services researchers can use it to study time spent on a variety of health-related activities. We explain the survey's structure and provide an overview of the health-related activities reported by 34,693 respondents in 2003-2004.
