The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey Assessment for Its Continuation (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1. Background and Overview
1. Background and Overview
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. The National Institute on Aging and the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council asked a panel of the National Research Council's Committee on National Statistics to review the current state of research knowledge and evaluate methods for measuring self-reported well-being and to offer guidance about adopting SWB measures in official population surveys (see Box 1-1 for the full charge to the panel)
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The panel will prepare a short interim report on the usefulness of the American Time Use Survey SWB module, and a final report identifying potential indicators and offering recommendations for their measurement. A later, separate second phase will seek to develop a framework modeled on the National Income and Product Accounts to integrate time-based inputs and outputs, and SWB measures, into selected satellite, or experimental, subaccounts.
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, and disability status.3 The SWB module adds to the substantive content of the ATUS by revealing not only what people are doing with their time, but also how they experience their time -- specifically how happy, tired, sad, stressed, and in pain they felt while engaged in specific activities on the day prior to the interview.4 This information has numerous practical applications for sociologists, economists, educators, government policy makers, businesspersons, health researchers, and others. The module follows directly after the core ATUS; it was administered on an ongoing basis during 2010 and is being done again during 2012.
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BOX 1-3 ATUS SWB Text Asking Respondents to Rate Strength of Feeling During Specific Activities Between 12:00 p.m.
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2) , asking the Cantril ladder question enables researchers "to build a link between time use and day reconstruction methods of measuring well-being on the one hand, and standard life evaluation questions on the other .
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Data from the module can also be used to measure whether the amount of physical pain that workers experience varies by occupation and disability status. The fact the SWB module can be linked to demographic characteristics of respondents -- labor force status, occupation, earnings, household composition, school enrollment status, and other characteristics captured on the core ATUS and CPS -- opens up a wide array of possible studies on the correlates of self-reported well-being.7 Collection of data on subjective well-being also supports the mission of the module's sponsor, the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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Further work can be done to examine the unique correlative and predictive associations of evaluated and experienced well-being with health and with differences related to life stage, retirement status, and individual characteristics.
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