Table 1.

Descriptive statistics on time use, immigrants and natives, ATUS 2004–08, mean, incidence and conditional mean, and standard error of mean^a

	Immigrants	Natives		Immigrants	Natives
Purchasing	47.41	47.67	Household activities	115.69	108.71
	(0.88)	(0.35)		(1.51)	(0.57)
Yes?	0.402	0.461	Yes?	0.718	0.766
Minutes/day	117.89	103.48	Minutes/day	161.22	141.86
	(1.50)	(0.58)		(1.76)	(0.66)
Education	26.44	27.80	Personal care	576.85	560.32
	(1.16)	(0.46)		(1.49)	(0.61)
Yes?	0.079	0.086	Yes?	0.999	0.999
Minutes/day	333.87	323.02	Minutes/day	576.95	560.48
	(9.61)	(3.31)		(1.48)	(0.61)
Work	249.79	219.48	Other leisure	26.50	35.10
	(3.00)	(1.16)		(0.65)	(0.33)
Yes?	0.492	0.461	Yes?	0.355	0.434
Minutes/day	507.70	475.31	Minutes/day	74.55	80.80
	3.07)	(1.40)		(1.47)	(0.65)
Care	51.31	45.23	Socializing/Television	237.54	280.51
	(1.07)	(0.41)		(1.92)	(0.86)
Yes?	0.387	0.359	Yes?	0.936	0.956
Minutes/day	132.64	125.82	Minutes/day	253.77	293.29
	(2.08)	(0.83)		(1.92)	(0.86)
Eating/drinking	73.98	74.25	Organizational/civic/religious	16.66	19.72
	(0.60)	(0.26)		(0.64)	(0.28)
Yes?	0.976	0.961	Yes?	0.119	0.142
Minutes/day	75.83	77.28	Minutes/day	139.56	139.04
	(0.61)	(0.26)		(3.18)	(1.24)
N =	8,976	55,949

Standard errors of means, here and in the online Appendix Table 1.

^aAll of the statistics here are weighted to reflect the behavior of a representative American on a representative day using the variable wt06, based on the ATUS methodology for 2006.