informR (version 1.0-5)

atus80int: Interval Events Subset of the American Time Use Survey

Description

Event histories from respondents over the age of 80 in the pooled 2003--2008 American Time Use Survey.

Usage

data(atus80int)

Format

A data frame with 124,704 observations on the following 4 variables:

Events

Type of event. See details.

Time

Cumulative time that an event occurred. See details.

TUCASEID

Respondent unique identification number.

SEX

Sex of respondent. 1=Males.

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics. The American Time Use Survey. Available online at: http://www.bls.gov/tus/.

Details

Each general sequential activity spell in the American Time Use Survey for respondents aged 80 and over was split into ``starting'' and ``stopping'' events.

The timing variable marks the instantaneous ``time'' of event occurrence in minutes beginning at time 0 and ending at time t (which is usually 1400). Because simultaneous events are not allowed one thousandth of a minute is added to the starting time of each activity spell after the first spell.

Examples

data(atus80int)
#Types of Events
unique(atus80int$Events)