# About the TIME USE category

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/about-the-time-use-category/68>\
**Category:** TIME USE\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/about-the-time-use-category/68 "2019-02-26T14:18:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/about-the-time-use-category/68/1 "2019-02-26T14:18:45Z")

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## THREE RESOURCES TO STUDY TIME USE.

[IPUMS Time Use](https://www.ipums.org/timeuse.shtml) 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](https://www.atusdata.org/)

#### AMERICAN TIME USE SURVEY EXTRACT BUILDER

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

### [AHTUS](https://www.ahtusdata.org/)

#### AMERICAN HERITAGE TIME USE STUDY EXTRACT BUILDER

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

### [MTUS](https://www.mtusdata.org/)

#### MULTINATIONAL TIME USE STUDY EXTRACT BUILDER

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