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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)
Belgium 1999 Time Use Survey
Canada General Social Survey, Cycle 19 Time Use (2005)
Europe HETUS Table Generating Tool (restricted access)

Working Time And Work-Life Balance (2004-2005)
UK Data Archive Study Number 5655

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

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 2000 (P1576)
Time-Budget Survey 1995 (P1383)
Time-Budget Survey 1990 (P1183)
Time-Budget Survey 1985 (P0926)
Time-Budget Survey 1980 (P0640)
Time-Budget Survey 1975 (P0319)
Portugal Portugal Uso do tempo 1999
Enter "tempo" in the Pesquisa por palavra box
Spain Encuesta de Empleo del Tiempo 2002-03 (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
Manager 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) (2003-2007)
American Time Use Survey Data Extract Builder (ATUS-X)
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)
Disability and Use of Time (DUST) 2009
Eating & Health Module of the 2006-2008 ATUS
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Child Development Supplement (CDS)