Free Time and Physical Activity Among Americans 15 Years or Older: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the American Time Use Survey
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 16 — September 26, 2019
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Figure 1.
Distribution of free time, in minutes per day, by income (<185% or ≥185% of federal poverty guidelines) and sex (N = 32,048), American Time Use Survey, 2014–2016. Test of equality: P< .001 for all of tests of equality of either the proportion of screen time or of physical activity: lower income men vs higher income men, lower income women vs higher income women, lower income men vs lower income women; higher income men vs higher income women. Discrepancies in data between this figure and Table 2 of this article are due to rounding.
| Category | Men | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <185% of Poverty Guidelines | ≥185% of Poverty Guidelines | <185% of Poverty Guidelines | ≥185% of Poverty Guidelines | |
| Screen time | 244 | 194 | 200 | 159 |
| Physical activity | 17 | 26 | 9 | 17 |
| Travel associated with free time | 14 | 17 | 12 | 15 |
| Other free time | 112 | 102 | 115 | 112 |
| Total | 387 | 339 | 336 | 303 |
Figure 2.
Distribution of free time, in minutes per day, by sex and race/ethnicity (N = 32,048), American Time Use Survey, 2014–2016. Test of equality: P = .90 for proportion of screen time by race/ethnicity among men; P
< .001 for proportion of screen time by race/ethnicity among women; P
= .07 for proportion of physical activity time by race/ethnicity among men, P
< .001 for proportion of physical activity time by race/ethnicity among women; P
< .001 for proportion of screen time or physical activity between men and women. Discrepancies in data between this figure and Table 2 of this article are due to rounding. [A tabular version of this figure is also available.]
| Category | Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Hispanic White | Hispanic | Black | Other | Non-Hispanic White | Hispanic | Black | Other | |
| Screen time | 210 | 186 | 261 | 193 | 178 | 146 | 212 | 146 |
| Physical activity | 24 | 22 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 16 |
| Travel associated with free time | 16 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 14 |
| Other free time | 106 | 97 | 122 | 87 | 118 | 98 | 121 | 100 |
| Total | 356 | 319 | 423 | 323 | 325 | 269 | 355 | 276 |
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