The file atusresp_2004.dat (the 2004 Respondent file) contains 166 variables and 13,973 observations.

For more information about this file, please see the ATUS 2004 Interview Data Dictionary, available online at 
http://www.bls.gov/tus/atusintcodebk04.pdf. 

In addition to the data file, four computer programs are contained in atusresp_2004.zip. If you have SPSS, SAS, or Stata software, you may use these programs to read the data into your statistical software package. The programs include variable and value labels.

The file "atusresp8_2004.sps" reads the data into SPSS; in this version, some variable names have been re-named such that their length does not exceed 8.

The file "atusresp_2004.sps" reads the data into SPSS; some variable names exceed length 8.

The file "atusresp_2004.sas" reads the data into SAS.

The file "atusresp_2004.do" reads the data into Stata.

If you have SAS, SPSS, or Stata software, open the corresponding program, edit the infile (in SAS), file (in SPSS), or insheet (in Stata) statement to reference the data file on your computer, and run the program. 

Special notice about the 2004 Respondent file:
    The variable TU06FWGT was added to the 2004 ATUS Respondent file on June 28, 2007.  TU06FWGT is a statistical weight that was generated using the 2006 weighting method. No other data were changed.  

    Users who combine multiple years of data must use weights that were generated using comparable methods. 
    For more information on combining multiple years of ATUS data, please go to http://www.bls.gov/tus/pooling.htm.