Time Use Data Access System

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求持续资助，以整合、记录和传播有关人们如何分配时间的个人层面数据。项目的第一阶段，重点关注美国时间使用调查（ATUS）的数据，按计划完成我们原始应用程序中描述的所有目标。主要目标是开发一个在线系统-美国时间使用调查数据提取生成器(ATUS- x) -使研究人员更容易使用ATUS数据。我们的工作包括重新格式化数据、开发综合文档、将当前人口调查补充数据与ATUS相匹配，以及设计一个网络传播系统，让用户定义包含定制设计的时间使用变量的数据摘录。我们现在建议将项目的范围向后扩展，跨越时间和地理上的国家，将已经纳入ATUS- x系统的8个ATUS样本的数量增加近6倍，达到46个。这将涉及建立一个新的时间使用数据提取系统（TUS-X），该系统可以管理历史和国际数据的全部范围。开展这项工作,马里兰大学和明尼苏达大学将与时间使用研究中心合作(CTUR),牛津大学1)扩大基地的数据添加5新前提数据集,从2011年到2015年,将获得5美国历史调查在1965年至2001年之间,和33个样本来自美国,加拿大和六个欧洲国家在过去的五十年,加上链接到额外的CPS数据;2)通过提供跨时间和空间协调的新变量来增强数据；为创建时间使用变量添加新的过滤器，以反映被调查者的时间使用

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks continued funding to integrate, document and disseminate individual-level data on how people allocate their time. The first phase of the project, focusing on data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), is on schedule to accomplish all the goals described in our original application. The primary goal was the development of an online system - the American Time Use Survey Data Extract Builder (ATUS-X) - that made it easier for researchers to work with ATUS data. Our work involved data reformatting, development of integrated documentation, matching Current Population Survey supplement data to the ATUS, and the design of a web dissemination system that lets users define data extracts that include custom-designed time-use variables. We now propose to extend the scope of the project backwards through time and geographically across countries, increasing the number of samples from the 8 ATUS samples already incorporated into the ATUS-X system nearly six-fold to 46. This will involve building a new Time Use Data Extract System (TUS-X) that can manage the full scope of the historical and international data. To carry out this work, the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota will partner with the Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR), University of Oxford, to 1) expand the data base by adding the 5 new ATUS datasets that will become available from 2011 to 2015, 5 historical U.S. surveys conducted between 1965 and 2001, and 33 samples drawn from the United States, Canada and six European countries over the past five decades, plus linking to additional CPS data; 2) enhance the data by making available new variables harmonized across time and space; adding new filters for the creation of time use variables that reflect both the respondent's primary activity and also any simultaneous (secondary) activities; and introducing new functionality to support the analysis of samples that include time diaries for multiple persons per household and/or multiple days per person; 3) document the data, including developing comprehensive integrated metadata for all new samples and variables and extensively reporting the comparability of each variable across countries and over time; and 4) improve data dissemination, expanding user support and outreach. Continuing this project for another five years and adding samples and functionality will facilitate research on parental time with children, how time use influences health, household responses to changing economic conditions, and cross-national research on health and well-being in different cultural and policy settings.