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>
http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/transportation.htm.
Dan Estersohn
Senior Demographer
Arbitron, Inc