TY - JOUR
T1 - Time Poverty Thresholds and Rates for the US Population
AU - Kalenkoski, Charlene M.
AU - Hamrick, Karen S.
AU - Andrews, Margaret
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Work on this research was partially supported by a cooperative agreement (58-4000-6-0120) between the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service and Ohio University.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Time constraints, like money constraints, affect Americans' well-being. This paper defines what it means to be time poor based on the concepts of necessary and committed time and presents time poverty thresholds and rates for the US population and certain subgroups. Multivariate regression techniques are used to identify the key variables associated with discretionary time and time poverty. The data confirm the idea that individuals in households with children have less discretionary time and are thus more likely to be time poor than those in households without children. Controlling for other household characteristics, an additional child reduces a household adult's daily discretionary time by 35 min. Surprisingly, while one might expect the necessary and committed activities required of an individual to be less in a two-adult household with children than in a one-adult household with children because child care can be shared, the data show that the presence of such a second adult only marginally reduces the necessary and committed time burden of an individual household member. Perhaps even more surprisingly, household income is not a statistically significant correlate of discretionary time or time poverty.
AB - Time constraints, like money constraints, affect Americans' well-being. This paper defines what it means to be time poor based on the concepts of necessary and committed time and presents time poverty thresholds and rates for the US population and certain subgroups. Multivariate regression techniques are used to identify the key variables associated with discretionary time and time poverty. The data confirm the idea that individuals in households with children have less discretionary time and are thus more likely to be time poor than those in households without children. Controlling for other household characteristics, an additional child reduces a household adult's daily discretionary time by 35 min. Surprisingly, while one might expect the necessary and committed activities required of an individual to be less in a two-adult household with children than in a one-adult household with children because child care can be shared, the data show that the presence of such a second adult only marginally reduces the necessary and committed time burden of an individual household member. Perhaps even more surprisingly, household income is not a statistically significant correlate of discretionary time or time poverty.
KW - American Time Use Survey
KW - Discretionary time
KW - Time poor
KW - Time poverty
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U2 - 10.1007/s11205-010-9732-2
DO - 10.1007/s11205-010-9732-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80052235728
SN - 0303-8300
VL - 104
SP - 129
EP - 155
JO - Social Indicators Research
JF - Social Indicators Research
IS - 1
ER -