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October 2004

Planning, designing, and executing the BLS American Time-Use Survey

Michael W. Horrigan, Diane Herz

From conception to implementation, the American Time Use Survey was 12 years in the making; its four developmental phases represented ever deeper levels of agency commitment and outside statistical support, as well as an evolution in thinking regarding survey estimation objectives, units of measurement, sampling plans, and data collection and coding protocols.

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Planning, designing, and executing the BLS American Time-Use Survey

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