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arative time use data resources: the Multinational Time Use Study and the American Heritage Time Use d
Kimberly Fisher, Jonathan Gershuny, Anne H. Gauthier, and Muriel Egerton
AHTUS
PURPOSE: Allow analysis of cross-time changes in
national accounts in the USA
DATA INCLUDED (release 1)
• 1965-1966 University of Michigan studies – both Jackson,
Michigan (Szalai) and 44 metropolitan areas samples
• 1975-1976 ICPSR 4 wave longitudinal study
• 1985 ICPSR mail back sample
• 1992-1994 NHAPS
• 2003 ATUS
Future data to be added
1995 NHAPS extension, 1998-2001 ICPSR, 2004 ATUS
Data Structure - main files
Supplementary
Files
Covers diarists aged 18+
Main respondent only 1975/76
1975/76 spouse +
main respondent
3 data files per survey
- Background/demographic
- Episode (main, secondary,
in/outside, location, who else
present, start/stop time, duration)
- Aggregated time (sole activity &
act with secondary childcare
summed separately)
Child (aged 0-17)
diaries 1992/94
Child (aged 15-17)
diaries 2003
Early analysis
Figure 4.4b: Women - Total Housework by surve y and child coresidence (aged 19-64)
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Figure 4.4a: Me n - Total Housework by surve y and child coresidence (aged 19-64)
no kids
kids aged under 5
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kids aged under 5
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The recently released American Historical Time Use Study
(AHTUS) was developed for the Glaser Progress Foundation
at Yale University. From 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
the USA began collecting first continuous time use data as an
add-on to the CPS. Not only is this American Time Use Study
(ATUS) the first continuous record of changes in daily
activities, this dataset also covers the largest time use sample
yet collected. The ATUS will allow the monitoring of trends in
the use of time in the USA, but as a new study, it does not
independently allow a backward view of change over time. The
AHTUS has harmonised older USA time use studies into a
format for cross-time analysis with the ATUS.
Both projects have entailed methodological work to improve
the quality of the time use data and to optimise the
harmonisation of the variables for cross-time and crossnational analysis. Both datasets are free for use to the
research community. The AHTUS will inform the next
generation of the MTUS, which will include harmonised
sequence, who else is present, and location data in addition to
aggregated activity summaries.
kids aged 5 to 17
kids aged 5 to 17
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minutes
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This poster details developments of two harmonised datasets
created at the Institute for Social and Economic Research
(ISER) at the University of Essex (UK) in conjunction with the
Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary (Canada).
The older dataset, the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS),
sprang from the inspiration of Professor Jonathan Gershuny,
then working with Sally Jones at the University of Bath in the
early 1980s. The early MTUS built from the 1965 Szalai
Multinational Time Budget Study and harmonised mainly
European datasets collected in the early 1960s through the
mid 1980s into a common series of background variables and
total time spent per day in 41 activities. The MTUS has grown
to encompass over 50 datasets from 19 countries, and is now
incorporating recent data from the HETUS, ATUS, and other
national level time use projects.
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Jackson
1960s
National
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1980s
1990s
ATUS
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1960s
Jackson
1960s
National
1970s
1980s
1990s
ATUS
2003
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/mtus/
MTUS
PURPOSE: Allow analysis of cross-time and cross-national
changes in daily activities
DATA INCLUDED (release 5.5.2)
Australia 1987, 1992, 1997
Austria 1992
Canada 1971/72, 1981, 1986, 1992, 1998
Denmark 1964
Finland 1979, 1987/88, 1999/2000
France 1998/99
Germany 1992
Italy 1989
Netherlands 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000
Norway 1971, 1981, 1990/91, 2000/01
Slovenia 2000/01
South Africa 2000
Sweden 1990/91, 2000
UK 1961, 1974/75, 1983, 1987, 1995, 2000/01
USA 1965/66, 1975/76, 1985, 1992/94, 1998/01, 2003
Current MTUS activity codes
Total Minutes in 24 Hours
AV1
AV3
AV5
AV7
AV9
AV11
AV13
AV15
AV17
AV19
AV21
AV23
AV25
AV27
AV29
AV31
AV33
AV35
AV37
AV39
AV41
paid work
AV2
second job
AV4
travel to/from work
AV6
doing housework
AV8
gardening
AV10
childcare
AV12
for dressing/toilet
AV14
eat meals or snacks AV16
travel for leisure
AV18
engage in sports
AV20
walking
AV22
civic, volunteer
AV24
dances/parties
AV26
pubs
AV28
visiting friends
AV30
TV/video
AV32
study
AV34
read paper/magazine AV36
conversation
AV38
knit, sew
AV40
missing
paid work at home
school, classes
cook, wash up
doing odd jobs
shopping
domestic travel
receive services
sleep
on excursions
watch sports
religious activity
cinema/theatre
social clubs
restaurants
radio
listen to recording
read books
relaxing
entertain friends
other hobbies
Future work
•Update activity list
• Add recent datasets
• More time series
• Harmonised
sequence data
• Separately
aggregated sole
& simultaneous
activity
• Add context
variables
• End 2006
for new
prototype