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American Time Use Survey—2009 Microdata Files

This page includes links to the 2009 ATUS microdata files and supporting documentation. Researchers can use the ATUS microdata files to produce their own time-use estimates or do other analyses. Each ZIP file contains a data file along with computer programs that will read the data file into SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The data files are in CSV-format (comma-separated values).

The microdata files do not contain time-use estimates. Tables showing time-use estimates for major activity categories, selected detailed activities, and selected demographic and labor force characteristics are available on the ATUS Web site under the headings News Releases, Charts and Tables.

About ATUS Data

Basic ATUS Data

2009 Basic ATUS Data Dictionaries (PDF Files)

ATUS 2009 Interview Data Dictionary Describes the Respondent, Roster, Activity, and Who files, and includes names and descriptions of the variables appearing on these files.
ATUS-CPS 2009 Data Dictionary Describes the ATUS-CPS file and includes names and descriptions of the variables appearing on the file. Variables on the ATUS-CPS file were collected 2 to 5 months before the ATUS interview.
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2009 Basic ATUS Data Files

ATUS 2009 Respondent file (zip) (1.0 MB) The Respondent file contains information about ATUS respondents, including their labor force status and earnings.
CORRECTED — The Respondent file, originally released June 22, 2010, was re-released on June 22, 2011, with corrected data for the weekly earnings variable TRERNWA. No other data were changed. As initially released, TRERNWA was not correct because overtime earnings were omitted from about 170 cases.
ATUS 2009 Roster file (zip) (0.2 MB) The Roster file contains information about household members and nonhousehold children (under 18) of ATUS respondents. It includes information such as age and sex.
ATUS 2009 Activity file (zip) (4.2 MB) The Activity file contains information about how ATUS respondents spent their diary day. It includes information such as activity codes, activity start and stop times, and locations.
ATUS 2009 Activity summary file (zip) (0.8 MB) The Activity summary file contains information about the total time each ATUS respondent spent doing each activity on the diary day.
CORRECTED — The Activity summary file, originally released June 22, 2010, was re-released on June 22, 2011, with corrected data for the weekly earnings variable TRERNWA. No other data were changed. As initially released, TRERNWA was not correct because overtime earnings were omitted from about 170 cases.
ATUS 2009 Who file (zip) (1.0 MB) The Who file includes codes that indicate who was present during each activity.
ATUS-CPS 2009 file (zip) (6.4 MB) The ATUS-CPS file contains information about each household member of all individuals selected to participate in ATUS. The information on the ATUS-CPS file was collected 2 to 5 months before the ATUS interview.

Additional ATUS Data

2009 Additional ATUS Data Dictionaries (PDF Files)

ATUS 2009 Survey Methodology Data Dictionary Describes the Case history and Call history files, and includes names and descriptions of the variables appearing on these files.
ATUS 2009 Trips Data Dictionary Describes the Trips file and includes the names and descriptions of variables appearing on the file.

2009 Additional ATUS Data Files

ATUS 2009 Case history file (zip) (0.3 MB) The Case history file contains information about the interview process, such as interviewer identifiers and interview outcome codes.
ATUS 2009 Call history file (zip) (1.7 MB) The Call history file contains information about each call attempt, including the call date and outcome.
ATUS 2009 Trips file (zip) (0.1 MB) The Trips file contains information about the number of times the respondent was away from home for 2 nights or more in a specific reference month. This file does not include weights. For more information about the Trips file read the Notice about Trips file.
ATUS 2009 Replicate weights (zip) (35.9 MB) The Replicate weights file contains miscellaneous ATUS weights.

2009 Survey Documentation

ATUS User's Guide (PDF)
ATUS Questionnaire
ATUS 2009 Coding Lexicon: no activity examples (PDF)
ATUS 2009 Coding Lexicon: with activity examples (PDF) (XLS)
Differences between yearly ATUS Coding Lexicons (PDF)
ATUS 2009 Coding Rules Manual (PDF)
ATUS Frequently Used Variables (PDF)

Last Modified Date: January 24, 2014