# How can I extract all subcategories in detail?

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305>\
**Category:** TIME USE\
**Created:** [December 23, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305 "2019-12-23T03:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elias\_Lazarus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Elias\_Lazarus](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Elias_Lazarus)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305/1 "2019-12-23T03:11:36Z")

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I want a detailed extract with each activity as an individual variable - I’m trying to match the BLS survey pdf (eg. [https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1\_2003.pdf](https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1_2003.pdf)) structure which shows a full detail/heirarchy of time use activities.  
eg. I want to see the time for ‘General or other personal care’ separate from ‘Imputed personal or household care’, and separate from ‘Sleep’ etc. for all the time use categories. I don’t want to create 93 individual variables, esp when I’m specifically not aggreagating into defined variables, but I just want to full detailed data.

Or is there a full download file?

Thank you,  
Eli

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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Bombyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Matthew\_Bombyk](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Matthew_Bombyk)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305/2 "2019-12-26T22:50:58Z")

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You can add all the BLS categories of time use by checking all the variables in the group on [this page](https://www.atusdata.org/atus-action/time_use_variables/group/3).

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**Author:** ![Elias\_Lazarus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Elias\_Lazarus](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Elias_Lazarus)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305/3 "2020-01-25T23:56:15Z")

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That’s great! That totally worked, and/but is there an equivalent page/navigation to do the same for the AHTUS sub-categories?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Bombyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Matthew\_Bombyk](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Matthew_Bombyk)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-extract-all-subcategories-in-detail/3305/4 "2020-01-30T15:31:00Z")

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Unfortunately IPUMS AHTUS doesn’t currently have all the detailed time use variables pre-made for downloading. You’ll need to create the individual time use variables yourself through [this page](https://www.ahtusdata.org/ahtus-action/time_use_variables/select_template).