Home Computers, Other Home Technology, and Americans Use of Time

该项目从1000个家庭的全国概率样本中收集美国数据，这些数据可以直接与在10多个欧洲共同市场国家收集的调查数据进行比较。更重要的是，它考察了这些新技术的存在似乎如何影响拥有这些技术的人的日常生活，通过检查这些所有者的日常时间使用模式，以及非人口统计和个人活动模式预测因素的时间使用模式。该项目建立在1993-94年间由NSF先前拨款支持的试点调查的基础上。它还将以30年来收集和分析时间的经验为基础，收集和分析时间的日记数据，以及时间似乎如何受到人口统计因素(如婚姻、为人父母和工作)、社会趋势和技术所有权变化的影响。研究发现，这种日记方法不仅可以产生可靠和有效的时间估计，还可以对电视、洗衣机和微波炉等早期技术的影响产生新的见解。补充问题阐明了这些新技术如何影响日常生活的其他方面。

This project collects U.S. data from a national probability sample of 1000 households on the ownership of advanced household and communication technologies that could be directly compared to survey data being collected in more than 10 European common market countries. More importantly, it examines how the presence of these new technologies seems to affect the daily lives of those who own them, by examining the daily time-use patterns of these owners with the time-use patterns of non-demographic and personal predictors of activity patterns. The project builds on 1993-94 pilot surveys supported by a previous NSF grant. It would also build on the 30 years of experience of collecting and analyzing time--diary data that provide national estimates of how time is spent -- and how time seems to be affected changes in demographic factors (like marriage, parenthood and work), by social trends and by ownership of technology. The diary method has been found to generate not only reliable and valid time estimates, but new insights into the effects of earlier technologies, like television, washing machines and microwave ovens. Supplemental questions shed light on how other aspects of daily life are affected by these new technologies.