American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS)

The American Heritage Time Use Study, a database of national time-diary samples collected over five decades, includes harmonised background, activity, location, mode of transport and who else was present variables. The AHTUS is suitable for a wide range of investigative purposes.

As these data are freely available to the research community, we ask the help of users to make programmes and publications developed using this data available to other users. Kindly email such material to the AHTUS team.

The initial development of this project allowing release 1 in May 2006 was conducted under an agreement with Yale University (Program on Non-Market Accounts), and was sponsored by the Glaser Progress Foundation. Some amendments to this dataset made from December 2005 through May 2006 were funded by the ESRC.

Important Notice

We will periodically release revised versions of this data which may include corrections. We advise users to check that they have downloaded the latest version of the AHTUS when working with this data.