TimeUse+ main study

Data and variable description


Date

2023-10-04

Publication Type

Dataset

ETH Bibliography

yes

Citations

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Data

Abstract

The TimeUse+ study collected data to understand daily patterns in travel, time use, and expenditure behavior. Study participation began with an initial online questionnaire that collected personal and household level characteristics along with information on mobility tool ownership. Next, participants took part in 28 days of tracking and validating, or annotating, their passively recorded events with all of the activities their performed at each location or during travel. For each activity, some or all of the following attributes had to be validated: duration, social partners, and expenditures. The TimeUse+ smartphone app was developed specifically for this project and the tracking portion relies on the software development kit from MotionTag (www.motiontag.com). After a successful tracking period, participants completed a final online questionnaire that mainly collected long-term expenditure information. Just over 63,000 individuals were invited to participate in this study from July 2022 to February 2023, and 1,318 successfully completed all three parts (i.e. net response rate around 2.1%).

Publication status

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Editor

Book title

Volume

90

Pages / Article No.

Publisher

IVT, ETH Zurich

Event

Edition / version

Methods

Software

Geographic location

Date collected

Date created

Subject

Codebook; List of variables; GPS data; Time use and travel data; Expenditure data

Organisational unit

03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) check_circle
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG

Notes

Funding

189001 - Consumption and travel after the smartphone revolution (SNF)

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