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August 2010

Time-use surveys: issues in data collection on multitasking

Robert Drago, Jay C. Stewart

Secondary–activity reports from the American Time Use Survey are not as good as those from the Family Interaction, Social Capital, and Trends in Time Use survey; statistical analysis reveals that the difference is attributable to the fact that such reports are requested in the former, but volunteered in the latter.

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