Co-Ordination and Funding

The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) at the University of Oxford maintains this database as an adjunct to the Multinational Time Use Study with additional information from the original American data. The CTUR team originally developed this database while based 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.

People who harmonised and developed the AHTUS:

• Dr Kimberly Fisher
• Ms Evrim Altintas
• Professor Jonathan Gershuny
• Dr Muriel Egerton

With assistance from:

• Mr Nuno Torres
• Mr Andreas Pollmann

With advice from:

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

People who commissioned and oversaw the project:

• Professor William Nordhaus
• Dr Dan Melnick