Tutorial: How to Use the “timeuse” Package and Make Visualizations
Step 1. Download ATUS-X extract Create your ATUS-X extract from IPUMS website. Make sure to include ‘DURATION’, ‘CASEID’, ‘PERNUM’, ‘ACTIVITY’,…
Latest Paper: Gender gap in housework time: how much do individual resources actually matter?
ABSTRACT Using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey Extract (ATUS-X), we analyze the gender gap among heterosexual married…
Latest Paper: Exploring daily time-use patterns: ATUS-X data extractor and online diary visualization tool
Abstract Time-use data can often be perceived as inaccessible by non-specialists due to their unique format. This article introduces the…
Optimal Matching Algorithm Interactive App for Social Scientists
Some of us that started sequence analysis probably always wondered how the optimal matching (Needleman-Wunsch, Levenshtein, global alignment) algorithm works….
All work and no play makes up gender inequality
This week, I have been busy with work often returning home after 7pm. Sometimes, other things also interfered—doing sports or…
Taiwan Time Use: Focus on Housework and Care Activities
I stumbled upon the wonderful visualizations of ATUS by Nathan Yau and Team Triple Treat, and decided to run similar…
How much time do Americans actually spend on housework?
Kamila Kolpashnikova | Камила Колпашникова, 1 December 2018 It is not a secret that most of housework is done…