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Access Time Use Data

The following external links enable you to access some original time use study data directly. Restrictions to access these data sets are explained on each website.

Country Study Details
Australia Growing Up in Australia
Victorian Transport Statistics Portal (accesses travel time, travel mode and travel attitude data)
Austria Time Use Tables from Statistics Austria
Belgium 1999 Time Use Survey
Canada General Social Survey, Cycle 19 Time Use (2005)
Europe Harmonised European Time Use Studies Tables click on Database by themes, then on Population and social conditions, then on Living conditions and welfare (livcon), then on Time use survey 2000 (tus)
Harmonised European Time Use Studies Table Generating Tool (restricted access)
Working Time And Work-Life Balance (2004-2005) UK Data Archive Study Number 5655
France 2009-2000 HETUS Survey
Germany Official tables from the 2002-2003 survey,
Zeitbudgets - Tabellenband I Zeitbudgeterhebung: Aktivitaeten in Stunden und Minuten nach Geschlecht,
Alter und Haushaltstyp 2001/02
. Download free of charge (Artikelnummer / item number 5639102029005)

2002/2003 German Time Use Study from (HETUS) Public Use File

Italy 2008-2009 Italian Time Use Survey
Japan Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities of Japan (2006)
Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities of Japan (2001)
Multinational Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS)
Multinational Time Budget Study
The Netherlands Time-Budget Survey 2005
Time-Budget Survey 2000
Time-Budget Survey 1995
Time-Budget Survey 1990
Time-Budget Survey 1985
Time-Budget Survey 1980
Time-Budget Survey 1975
New Zealand Time Use Survey 2009-10
Pakistan National Time Use Survey 2007
Portugal Portugal Uso do tempo 1999
Enter "tempo" in the Pesquisa por palavra box
Spain Encuesta de Empleo del Tiempo 2002-03 y 2009-2010 (HETUS)
Switzerland Zurich Vicinity Time Of Day Traffic Survey, 1978 UK Data Archive Study Number 1426
Russia Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)
United Kingdom Activities and Time Use (1983) UKDA Study No 2170
Attitudes Towards Extending British Summer Time (1986) UKDA Study No 2341
Banbury Activity/Travel Survey (1976) UKDA Study No 1095
BBC Daily Life Study (2002/2003)
BCS70 16-Year Follow-up (1986) UKDA Study No 3535
BHPS Calibrated Time Use Data (1994-2010) UKDA Study No 5363
Home Care Staff Use Of Time (1978) UKDA Study No 1568
Home Online (1998-2001) UKDA Study No 4607
Internet 2004-2005
Lifestyles and Living Standards of Children (1995) UKDA Study No 3962
Managers and Their Jobs (1964) UKDA Study Nos 5255 and 29
Mass Observation
Mobility of Old People and Housewives Guildford (1975) UKDA Study No 1374
(UK HETUS) National Time Use Study (2000-2001) UKDA Study Nos 4504 and 5536
Omnibus Survey Time Use Module (1995) UKDA Study No 3951
Omnibus Survey Time Use Module (1999) UKDA Study No 4224
Omnibus Survey Time Use Module (2005) UKDA Study No 5592
People's Activities And Use Of Time (1974-1975) UKDA Study No 1425
Scottish Household Survey (2005) UKDA Study No 5608
Time Use in Family Care (1980-1982) UKDA Study No 4878
Use of Time in Great Britain (1961) UKDA Study No 1581
Yorkshire Household Travel Diaries (1978-1981) UKDA Study No 1737
United States of America American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and supplements (eating and health 2006-2008; emotions & well-being 2010) (2003-2010)
American Time Use Survey Data Extract Builder (ATUS-X)
Alan Kruger's documentation and programs making use of ATUS 2010 emotions data easier
ATUS Eating & Health Module 2006-2008
ATUS linked to Compendium of Physical Activities
University of Maryland Time Use Study (1992-1994)
American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS)
Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD)
Panel Study of Income Dymanics (PSID) Disability and Use of Time (DUST) 2009
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Child Development Supplement (CDS)
Panel Study of Income Dymanics (PSID) Time and Money Transfer File 1988
Princeton Affect and Time Survey (PATS)