Time Use of Youths by Immigrant and Native-Born Parents: ATUS Results

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Time Use of Youths by Immigrant and Native-Born Parents: ATUS Results Abstract Immigrant youths tend to assimilate lifestyles similar to those of the host country. For example, the youth structure how they live based on the habits of their native-born peers. The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data illustrates the process of assimilation in immigrants by examining and analyzing how youths born by native parents and youths born from diverse migrant backgrounds use their time. The data obtained from the survey helps to predict or explain successful assimilation in their adult years. As a Chinese, I have many immigrant friends. For that reason, I have found that immigrants and locals have many different lifestyles. Besides, I came across this article when searching for relevant surveys of immigrants and locals. Therefore, I will replicate this research and try to draw some conclusions. The source link of this paper is /opub/mlr/2012/06/art1full.pdf. For the data, I intend to replicate Table 2 from the article. The table illustrates the typical number of minutes spent per day by native-born adolescents and migrant parents in different activities. The target age group is 15 to 17-years for both males and females. The period when the data was collected ranges between the year 2003 and 2010. Keywords: Teenager, ATUS, immigrant, native or non-immigrant, regression, multivariate, youths, age. Introduction The U.S population has grown due to the number of people migrating from their native countries to settle in the U.S. Primarily, immigrants are persons who leave their mother countries to settle in new countries for various reasons. These immigrants tend to assimilate the behavior of the natives in the host country. To comprehend this assimilation process, adolescents are an effective sample of the whole immigrant population since they will predict the future adult lifestyles of the immigrant society. Besides, they are subject to peer pressure and tend to assimilate the lifestyles and habits of those around them. The segmented assimilation depicts that immigrant youths face an assimilation path that is segmented on nature or reasons, which made their parents depart their home country. Some of the reasons include the initial job status of the parents, reception at the host country, and obvious cultural and economic barriers. In most cases, immigrant adolescents tend to copy behaviors of those in the host country. For instance, immigrants adapt and change their lifestyles relative to those of their native peers. The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data numerically indicates the time use of native-born and immigrant adolescents on a daily basis. The data collected from this survey will be essential in drawing conclusions on the assimilation theory. Studies suggest that second-generation immigrants perform better in education and get higher-waged jobs than the first parent generation. Notably, this forms a pattern called the ‘second generation advantage’. Accordingly, the families of immigrants’ value education, thus performing better in schools than U.S born families. Teenagers spend most of their time on personal care, educational activities, paid work, free-time activities, and unpaid work. Conversely, migrant teenagers are likely to secure high-paying jobs, thus making them spend less time in school and extra co-curricular activities to support their low-economic level families. Usually, immigrant parents have higher gender expectations than native ones. In this paper, the focus is on gender, age, and the adolescents’ region of residence. The area dispersal of migrant and nonimmigrant (native) families is quite different. The area of residence is captured with a four-category variable that determines those in the Northeast, which is the reference group, the Midwest, West, and South. Methodology The variables present in this paper are gender, age, and the adolescents’ region of residence. The target group will be adolescents living with at least one parent. I will restrict the age group of participant adolescents to be 15 to 17. This is because it is usual for adolescents to live away from their parents when they attain the age of 18 ...