American Time Use Survey Data Extract Builder (ATUS-X)
ATUS-X is a project dedicated to making it easy for researchers to use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). The ATUS is an ongoing time diary study that is funded by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and fielded by the U.S. Census Bureau. The goals of the ATUS-X project are:
- To collect and preserve ATUS data and documentation
- To harmonize the data from different years of data collection
- To streamline the creation of analytic data files containing customized time use variables and variables describing ATUS sample members and their households
Time is our scarcest resource...use it wisely!