MTUS User Guide

Summary:

This User's Guide explains the development and potential for use of the MTUS. Information on other time use surveys not included in the harmonized dataset can be found elsewhere on this site.

This User Guide is publicly available. Access to the main data requires registration, and access to some included datasets is restricted and requires authorisation.

Authors: Kimberly Fisher, Jonathan Gershuny and Anne H. Gauthier

With contributions from:

Evrim Altintas, Alyssa Borkosky, Anita Bortnik, Michael Corey, Donna Dosman, Cara Fedick, Tyler Frederick, Thomas Grund, Sally Jones, Jiweon Jun, Aaron Lai, Qianhan Lin, Tingting Lu, Fiona Lui, Leslie MacRae, Berenice Monna, José Ignacio Giménez Nadal, Monica Pauls, Cori Pawlak, Andrew Shipley, Cecilia Tinonin, Nuno Torres, Charlemaigne Victorino and Oiching Yeung
Contents: Title and table of contents
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Introduction
Chapter 1: Overview of the MTUS
Chapter 2: Variables from older versions
Chapter 3: Activity codes
Chapter 4: Background variables
Chapter 5: Weights
Chapter 6: Analysis of time use
References
Notes: This User Guide pertains to Release 4 of the World 5.5 dataset, and Release 1 of the World 5.8 and World 6.0 datasets. This guide was last updated in January 2010, and replaces previous versions.
Download:

Link to download MTUS User Guide Full version of documentation (excluding survey notes and conversion files, which are only available online)

 

 



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