Analysis of Children’s Leisure Activity Engagement: Examining Day of Week, Location, Physical Activity Level, and Fixity Dimensions

This paper presents a detailed analysis of discretionary leisure activity engagement by children. Children’s leisure activity engagement is of much interest to transportation professionals from an activity-based travel demand modeling perspective, to child development professionals from a sociological perspective, and to health professionals from an active lifestyle perspective that can help prevent obesity and other medical ailments from an early age. Using data from the 2002 Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper presents a detailed analysis of children’s discretionary activity engagement by day of week (weekend versus weekday), location (in-home versus out-of-home), type of activity (physically active versus passive), and nature of activity (structured versus unstructured). By modeling children’s leisure activity engagement across these multiple dimensions, valuable insights are obtained regarding the nature of activity engagement patterns and the observed and unobserved factors that influence these patterns. A mixed multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MMDCEV) model formulation is adopted to account for the fact that children may participate in multiple activities and allocate positive time duration to each of the activities chosen.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Sener, Ipek Nese
  • Copperman, Rachel B
  • Pendyala, Ram M
  • Bhat, Chandra R
  • 0000-0002-0715-8121
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
• Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Children; Leisure time; Obesity; Recreation; Travel demand; Travel surveys; Trip purpose
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01099146
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 08-2423
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 21 2008 7:05AM