Table 2.
Estimates of the relation of with whom time is spent—alone and with others—to life satisfaction, ATUS 2012–2013a
| Married, no children | Single ≥ 30, no children | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| All | Men | Women | All | Men | Women | |
| Ind. Var. (in 100 min/day) | ||||||
| Alone | −0.0065 (0.0059) | −0.0094 (0.0086) | −0.0035 (0.0084) | −0.0121 (0.0044) | −0.0030 (0.0069) | −0.0199 (0.0058) |
| With friends | 0.0140 (0.0095) | 0.0054 (0.0139) | 0.0170 (0.0136) | −0.0004 (0.0048) | −0.0026 (0.0070) | 0.0023 (0.0068) |
| With other people | 0.0021 (0.0059) | 0.0053 (0.0081) | −0.0069 (0.0094) | −0.0039 (0.0041) | −0.0066 (0.0059) | −0.0021 (0.0059) |
| With other relatives | −0.0062 (0.0080) | −0.0049 (0.0129) | −0.0088 (0.0106) | 0.0044 (0.0039) | 0.0142 (0.0064) | 0.0001 (0.0051) |
| With spouse | 0.0144 (0.0046) | 0.0153 (0.0066) | 0.0164 (0.0068) | – | – | – |
| p on F-statistic of “who with” vector | <0.0001 | 0.002 | 0.004 | 0.004 | 0.044 | 0.002 |
| Adj. R2 | 0.059 | 0.070 | 0.061 | 0.088 | 0.098 | 0.094 |
| N= | 4710 | 2332 | 2378 | 6848 | 2825 | 4023 |
aStandard errors in parentheses. Additional covariates are: vectors of age indicators, years of educational attainment, racial/ethnic identity; measures of household income and the distribution of time spent on the diary day among work, home production, sleep, other personal care and TV-watching (with other leisure activities the excluded category); usual weekly hours of paid work, and vectors of indicators of class of worker, state of residence, day of week, month of year, year and immigrant status