About the TIME USE category

THREE RESOURCES TO STUDY TIME USE.

IPUMS Time Use projects provide free individual-level time use data for research purposes. The data extract systems make it easy to create data sets containing time use and other variables a user needs.

ATUS

AMERICAN TIME USE SURVEY EXTRACT BUILDER

Annual American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data from 2003 forward.

AHTUS

AMERICAN HERITAGE TIME USE STUDY EXTRACT BUILDER

Historical American time use data since 1965 harmonized for comparison over time, including the ATUS samples.

MTUS

MULTINATIONAL TIME USE STUDY EXTRACT BUILDER

MTUS is a project dedicated to making it easy for researchers to use data from around the world.