American Time Use Survey

2016 Eating & Health Module Microdata Files

This page includes links to the 2016 ATUS Eating & Health (EH) Module microdata files and supporting documentation. Researchers can use the EH microdata files to produce their own 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 estimates. Tables showing estimates are available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, a sponsor of the EH Module.

For more information about ATUS Modules, please see the ATUS Modules page.

About ATUS Data

ATUS EH Module Data Dictionary

ATUS Eating & Health Module 2014-16 Data Dictionary (PDF) Describes the EH Respondent and EH Activity files, and includes names and descriptions of the variables appearing on these files.

2016 ATUS EH Module Data Files

ATUS 2016 EH Respondent file (zip) (0.3 MB) The EH Respondent file contains information about EH respondents, including general health and body mass index.
ATUS 2016 EH Activity file (zip) (0.3 MB) The EH Activity file contains information such as the activity number, whether secondary eating occurred during the activity, and the duration of secondary eating.
ATUS 2016 EH Replicate weights file (zip) (12.9 MB) The EH Replicate weights file contains miscellaneous EH weights.

2016 Survey Documentation

ATUS EH Module 2014-16 Questionnaire
The ATUS 2014-16 Eating and Health Module User's Guide is maintained by the Economic Research Service of the U.S.D.A., a sponsor of the EH Module.

Last Modified Date: December 7, 2017

Latest Numbers

AVERAGE HOURS PER DAY

Household activities:
1.95 in 2021

Eating and drinking:
1.19 in 2021

Leisure and sports:
5.27 in 2021

Sleeping:
8.95 in 2021

Caring for and helping household children, parents:
1.43 in 2021

Working, employed persons:
5.25 in 2021

Working on days worked, employed persons:
7.75 in 2021

PERCENT PARTICIPATING ON AN AVERAGE DAY

Working, employed persons:
67.8 in 2021

Participating in sports, exercise, and recreation:
21.5 in 2021

Estimates are annual averages for the civilian noninstitutional population age 15 and over unless noted. Activities refer to an individual's main activity. Other activities done simultaneously are not included.