Fall 2026 Time Use Webinar with R. Gordon Rinderknecht

Presentation Title: Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to study Americans’ social lives: opportunities and limitations

About the Presentation

The ATUS, being the primary source of information on how Americans allocate their time, is a crucial source of data for studying the health of Americans’ social lives. In this webinar, I discuss the ATUS’s time diary methodology, review the various ways the ATUS has been used to study Americans’ sociality, and highlight what this research tells us. I then demonstrate how researchers can get started using the ATUS via IPUMS’s extract builder (www.atusdata.org/atus/) while highlighting the ATUS’s limitations for studying time spent with others and time spent alone.

About the Speaker

R. Gordon Rinderknect is a Non-Resident Fellow of the German Marshall Fund and Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Seminar Format:

Location ONLINE VIA Webinar on ZOOM: Zoom registration link.  Upon registration, you will receive an automatically generated email with the direct link for the seminar.

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