Aggregating Time Use Microdata
Being able to work with microdata from the American Time Use Survey, via IPUMS, means you can subset, filter, and categorize how you want. This makes it easier to explore questions.
I use IPUMS data a lot, which makes it easier to subset and download microdata from U.S. government organizations, such as the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
We learned how to download data via IPUMS a while back. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps to process such data, which can be applied to other datasets.
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About the Author
Nathan Yau is a statistician who works primarily with visualization. He earned his PhD in statistics from UCLA, is the author of two best-selling books — Data Points and Visualize This — and runs FlowingData. Introvert. Likes food. Likes beer.
