RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 How Ethnoracial Groups Spend Their Time
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 178
OP 200
DO 10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.09
VO 11
IS 1
A1 James, Sarah
A1 Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth
YR 2025
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/1/178.abstract
AB We know strikingly little about how time use varies across ethnoracial groups in the United States. We describe the daily lives of 210,586 White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian people in the nationally representative American Time Use Survey (2003–2019). Activities are similarly unpleasant for all groups, but White people spend the most time on highly pleasant leisure activities, Asian people spend the most time in unpleasant ways, and Black people spend the most time doing affectively neutral activities, such as watching television. These patterns show continuity in across recent decades and in harmonized historic data. Black people spend the most and Hispanic people the least time alone. We conclude that time diaries are a promising resource for exploring nuances in the texture of ethnoracial groups’ daily experiences.