I need to get more
information on the Journey to Work questions. Can you help me understand
why only the one-way home-to-work trip is asked for? Why not the return
trip? Is it correct to double the Census travel times to generalize "the
average worker spends 51 minutes a day commuting?" I would appreciate your
input.
The questions arise
because we posted the Census data on our web site. We aggregated the
data to our geographies and to a more manageable number of categories. As
you can imagine; radio stations, outdoor advertising companies, and their ad
agency and advertiser clients are very interested in commuting info. If
you are interested, you can see the application at http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/transportation.htm.
Dan
Estersohn
Senior
Demographer
Arbitron,
Inc