NHTS Brief: Working At Home - The Quiet Revolution: National Household Travel Survey

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• Alternative Title:
  National Household Travel Survey
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Statistics
  • Travel surveys
  • Travel behavior
  • Data collection
  • Data analysis
  • Working conditions
• Series:
  National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Many workers dream of working at home, to replace stressful commutes, save time and gas money, and help the environment. Because of electronic communication and increased acceptance in professional occupations, productive and seamless telecommuting is becoming a more feasible option for employers and workers. As a result, the number of workers who work at home is on the rise. The 2001 NHTS shows that 10.4 million workers telecommuted at least occasionally (at minimum, once in the past two months) instead of traveling to their normal workplace. Since 1995, there has been a dramatic shift in who works at home. Not only are they greater in number, but current telecommuters include a greater percentage of men, persons in high income households, and suburbanites as compared to 1995. The changing character of telecommuters is shown in Exhibit 1.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/58871/dot_58871_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 40.36 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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