A Healthy, Well-Nourished Population: Conference

Food and Eating Consequences of Time-Use Decisions: A Research and Policy Conference

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Washington, DC

On Tuesday, July 13, ERS and the Farm Foundation hosted a 1-day conference at ERS in Washington, DC, on data to be released this summer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey. These important new data will allow researchers to analyze the choices people make in how they spend their time, the time and income constraints they face, and the consequences of their decisions. In addition, researchers will be able to use data from the survey's proposed Food & Eating module to study the relationship between time use and eating patterns and between time-use patterns and food assistance participation.

This conference provided researchers, policymakers, program administrators, and industry analysts an opportunity to discuss and identify research priorities that will better their understanding on how economic theory and application can be used to generate policy-relevant insights from time-use data. PowerPoint presentations from the conference are available on the Farm Foundation's website. Brief abstracts of most of the presentations are available through the linked titles below.