TimeUse+
Field report and lessons learned
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2023-10
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Abstract
The TimeUse+ study was designed to collect data to understand daily patterns in travel, time use, and expenditure behavior. Study participation involved completing an initial questionnaire that collected personal and household level characteristics along with information on mobility tool ownership. Next, participants spent 28 days using the TimeUse+ smartphone application to track their movements, which were then displayed to them as a continuous timeline. Participants were required to validate (i.e., annotate) their passively recorded events with all of the activities 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+ app was developed specifically for this project and its tracking capabilities rely on the software development kit from MotionTag (www.motiontag.com). After a successful tracking period, participants completed a final questionnaire that was mainly concerned with long-term expenditure information, and also included questions regarding values, attitudes, and travel preferences. The invitation to participate in the study was sent to 63,081 individuals in German-speaking Switzerland. The 1,318 individuals who successfully completed the three required parts of the study did so between July 2022 and February 2023. The net response rate was therefore about 2.1%. This document is a comprehensive account of the TimeUse+ study. It should be of great use for researchers interested in running a similar study. Some of the material described has been published somewhere else; these sections are cited. All sections refer to (data from) the TimeUse+ main study wave. Prior experience gained via focus groups and a pretest are described as well.
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1850
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IVT, ETH Zurich
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03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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189001 - Consumption and travel after the smartphone revolution (SNF)
Related publications and datasets
Is supplemented by: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000634868
Is supplemented by: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000609796