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Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS
Kari C W Williams1, Sarah M Flood1, Liana C Sayer2
1IPUMS Center for Data Integration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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|March 11, 2026
Summary
IPUMS ATUS simplifies American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data, offering harmonized time diary information. This enhances human behavior research by providing accessible tools for analyzing detailed activity and contextual data.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Behavioral Sciences
- Data Science
Background:
- The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects detailed 24-hour time diary data, including sociodemographic information.
- Analyzing ATUS data is challenging due to its complex, hierarchical structure, requiring advanced programming skills.
- Understanding how individuals spend their time is crucial for examining human behavior patterns.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe IPUMS ATUS, a harmonized and enhanced version of the ATUS data.
- To simplify the use of time diary data for researchers.
- To provide tools for combining ATUS files and creating custom variables for time use analysis.
Main Methods:
- Harmonization of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data.
- Development of customization tools for data analysis.
- Dissemination of an enhanced ATUS dataset through the IPUMS platform.
Main Results:
- IPUMS ATUS offers a harmonized dataset simplifying access to time diary information.
- Researchers can now more easily combine data from multiple ATUS files.
- Customization tools facilitate the creation of variables summarizing time use and context.
Conclusions:
- IPUMS ATUS significantly lowers the barrier to entry for researchers studying human behavior through time use data.
- The harmonized data and tools enable more sophisticated analyses of activity sequencing and time allocation.
- This resource expands the possibilities for population-level research on how people spend their time.
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