Money Allocation to Out-of-Home Leisure Activities and the Organization of These Activities in Time and Space

Abstract

Monetary budgets influence activity participation and related travel as they demarcate limits on how people organize their activities in time and space. In this paper, we are interested in money allocation to out-of-home leisure activities and how this is affected by duration, sociodemographics, and time-location variables. Analyses were carried out by applying a seemingly unrelated regression model to a leisure activity data set. The analyses revealed that expenditures for out-of-home leisure activities are influenced by the variables mentioned above. Moreover, the results indicate that there is a substitution between expenditure of each activity.

Keywords:

• activity duration
• activity-travel patterns
• monetary expenditures
• out-of-home leisure activity