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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2012 Jun 25;55(3):215–218. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.06.015

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of United States adult full-time employed residents of urban counties, American Time Use Survey (2003–2010).

Description Male Female Total
Sample size 14,297 13,405 27,702
Time with others, in minutes
 Time with spouse/partner, mean (sd) 194.2 (235.9) 157.4 (218.6) 177.9 (229.1)
 Time with own children, mean (sd) 113.9 (202.5) 111.7 (202.4) 112.9 (202.4)
 Time with friends, mean (sd) 54.5 (143.6) 51.2 (131.8) 53.1 (138.5)
Total observed minutes with others, mean (sd) 579.1 (238.5) 578.8 (228.6) 578.9 (234.2)
Time usage, in minutes
 Total daily commute, mean (sd) 23.8 (34.9) 20.9 (31.1) 22.4 (33.1)
  Conditional on having commuting, mean (sd) 56.3 (33.5) 52.1 (29.6) 54.5 (31.9)
 Total time working, mean (sd) 242.1 (263.6) 218.5 (249.1) 230.6 (256.9)
  Conditional on having worked, mean (sd) 486.5 (157.3) 458.1 (152.8) 474.0 (156.0)
Demographics
 Age, mean (sd) 41.1 (10.6) 41.5 (11.1) 41.3 (10.8)
 White, % 69.8% 67.4% 68.7%
 Black, % 8.4% 14.3% 11.2%
 Hispanic, % 15.7% 13.3% 14.5%
 Asian, % 4.4% 3.4% 4.0%
 Other race, % 1.7% 1.6% 1.6%
 No spouse/partner present, % 39.2% 30.8% 34.5%
 Spouse present: employed full time, % 47.8% 35.3% 40.8%
 Spouse present: employed part time, % 4.7% 12.9% 9.3%
 Spouse present: not employed, % 8.4% 21.0% 15.5%
 Own child present, % 41.8% 46.0% 44.1%
 Number of household youths, mean (sd) 1.1 (1.2) 0.9 (1.1) 1.0 (1.1)
 Number of other household adults, mean (sd) 1.0 (0.8) 0.8 (0.8) 0.9 (0.8)
 Infant present, % 11.5% 7.4% 9.5%
 Wage, mean (sd) $21.74 ($14.95) $17.06 ($11.58) $19.47 ($13.63)
 Household income, mean (sd) $66,942 ($44,984) $59,256 ($42,287) $63,223 ($43,868)
 No high school diploma, % 8.1% 5.1% 6.6%
 High school diploma, % 21.9% 21.4% 21.7%
 Some college, % 26.3% 30.5% 28.3%
 College degree, % 27.6% 27.7% 27.7%
 Graduate or professional degree, % 16.1% 15.3% 15.7%

Additional control variables are respondents’ time diary date information. Included survey weights are applied.