Co-Ordination and Funding

The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex in the UK developed the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) on commission from Yale University (Program on Non-Market Accounts) for the Glaser Progress Foundation, which funded the creation of this project. The AHTUS project is one of two related time use and United States national accounts projects commissioned by Yale University. The ESRC has funded additional work testing and expanding the initial AHTUS design and range of variables. CTUR, which continues to maintain the AHTUS, will be relocating to the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford in the UK in October 2006.

People who harmonised and developed the AHTUS:

• Dr Muriel Egerton
• Dr Kimberly Fisher
• Professor Jonathan Gershuny

With assistance from:

• Mr Nuno Torres
• Mr Andreas Pollmann

With advice from:

• Professor Anne Gauthier (University of Calgary)
• Professor John Robinson (University of Maryland)

People who commissioned and oversaw the project:

• Professor William Nordhaus
• Dr Dan Melnick