Centre for Time Use Research - information gateway
Centre for Time Use Research - information gateway
At present, there are two versions of the MTUS data file. The World 5.0 series (current version World 5.0. 1) covers the original MTUS variables and the age range common to all the studies: ages 20-59. The World 5.5 series includes additional background and survey variables not contained in the World 5.0 series as well as covering the full age range of the original surveys. Once it is developed, the World 6.0 series will cover episodes, secondary activities, and who else is present, as well as containing more detailed time use activity codes.
The World 5.0 series, with the harmonised age range, can easily be recreated from the World 5.5 file – all the user need do is:
We plan to discontinue the World 5.0 series, and we are not adding new datasets to this series. Nonetheless, some of the older studies converted to this original format have not yet been transformed into the World 5.5 format. For this reason, we have left the World 5.0.1 version available on the MTUS web site for users seeking access to the data that has not yet been improved into the newer formats. We will issue only the most recent World 5.5 series and World 6.0 series for each dataset with each new release.
At present, the syntax used to construct the World 5.5 series is being checked and tested for errors or possibilities for improvement. New data sets are also being added to the MTUS archive.
We hope to meet the following timetable of work on the MTUS. For release in:
Professor Jonathan Gershuny (then at the University of Bath) with Dr Sally Jones produced the original World 5.0 series conversion syntax.
Professor Anne Gauthier, with Anita Bortnik, Cara Fedick, Tyler Frederick, Tingting Lu, Fiona Lui, Leslie MacRae, Berenice Monna, Monica Pauls, Cori Pawlak, and Charlemaigne Victorino, all of the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, undertook the painstaking process of checking the original code for constructing the MTUS files, adding in respondents from the full age range collected in each original study, and expanding the education detail included in the file.
Professor Jonathan Gershuny and Dr Kimberly Fisher, with Dr Muriel Egerton, Dr Man-Yee Kan, Fernando De Maio, Killian Mullan, Andreas Pollmann, and Nuno Torres, have also participated in the creation of the later releases of the World 5.5 series, and in conjunction with the team, have developed the World 6 series of MTUS data files.
