Internet exercise

In doing this exercise, students should be aware that the precise names of
documents and their location within a website may change over time.
The US Census Bureau is the primary source of government data on many topics
included in this text including income, education, health insurance, and poverty.
Visit the home page of the US Census Bureau at http://www.census.gov.

1. Click on Poverty. On the poverty data page, look for the most recent document
titled Income and Poverty (or a similar title). (This is the same publication
used in the data exercise for Chapter 7). Find Table 3, which provides information
on people in poverty by selected characteristics. (Table 14-2 of this chapter
focused on families.)
Using these data, look at differences in (official) poverty rates for individuals
by age, race, nativity, and work experience. What might explain these differences
given discussions in this chapter and earlier ones?

2. The Census Bureau website also provides Historical Tables on poverty and
other topics. On the poverty data page, look for Historical Table 2: Poverty
Status of People by Family Relationship, Race, and Hispanic Origin.
Using these data, compare the overall poverty rate for individuals (people) for
the most recent year with rates from the early 2000s. Discuss these trends in light
of changes in economic conditions in the overall US economy during this period.

This is the website to reference and chapter 14 in book attached

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.html

PART 2: Page 88-89 in book

Note: In doing this exercise, students should be aware that the precise names
of documents
and their location with a website may change over time. Visit the
home of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) at http://www.bls.gov/tus/. Read
the ATUS FAQs.
1. To get a sense of how the ATUS time diary works, document how you spent
your time during a prior weekday, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., using 15-minute blocks
of time. (So, for instance, on a Tuesday, you would document how you spent
your time on Monday from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., etc.) Report on one activity
during each time period. (The one exception, as in the ATUS, is that you can
report secondary [supervisory] childcare time that occurs concurrently with another
activity.) The final step is to convert your specific activities into the narrow
categories outlined in Table A-1. For instance, if you did chores like cleaning
your house, this would be categorized as housework, not the broad category
Household Activities.

a. Create a table (clearly labeled and sourced) of your time estimates. Compare
your time estimates with those in Table A-1. Discuss the differences and the
reasons for them. (And if you have an opportunity, compare your estimates
with those of classmates.)

b. What specific issues did you encounter in completing the diary in terms of
recall, multitasking, classification of activities, etc. What does your experience
mean for time use data surveys?

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