Linking to ATUS What is ATUS Time diary survey funded by BLS Fielded annually since 2003 Respondents report All of the activities they engage in starting at 4am yesterday and ending at 4am today Where they were who they were with and whether they were engaged in childcare or eldercare at the sa ID: 761752
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Linking to ATUS
What is ATUS? Time diary survey funded by BLS Fielded annually since 2003 Respondents report All of the activities they engage in starting at 4am yesterday and ending at 4am today Where they were, who they were with, and whether they were engaged in childcare or eldercare at the same time Samples individuals 15+ ~12,000 people per year
Spans a 24-Hour Period START STOP ACTIVITY LOCATION WITH WHOM 4:00 6:00 Sleep n/a n/a 6:00 6:10 Personal Care n/a n/a 6:10 6:15 Dressing Home Alone 6:15 6:30 Eating Breakfast Home Spouse 6:30 6:45 Driving to Train Station Car Alone 6:45 6:55 Waiting for the Train Train Station Alone 6:55 7:30 Taking the Train to Work Train Alone 7:30 10:00 Working Work Alone 10:00 11:00 Working Work Co-Workers 11:00 11:05 Personal Care Work n/a 11:05 12:00 Working Work Alone 12:00 12:10 Walking to Restaurant for Lunch Walking Co-Workers
Modules Like CPS supplements Eating and Health (2006-2008, 2014-2016) Shopping/meal preparation variables, poverty, food program participation Well-Being (2010, 2012, 2013) Life satisfaction, momentary well-being Employee Leave (2011) Access to and use of paid/unpaid leave
Research Using Time Diaries Gender division of paid and unpaid work Parents’ time with children Adolescent time use Time with others (spouse, friends, etc ) Time spent in healthy/unhealthy behaviors Differences in leisure time activities Comparisons of time in various activities by demographic characteristics
How is ATUS related to CPS? CPS is the sampling frame for ATUS Individual respondents are drawn from households that have completed their participation in CPS Only requirement is that they completed final CPS interview (MISH 8) ATUS interview is conducted 2-5 months after final CPS interview
Why link these data? CPS has lots of information about ATUS respondents and their household members Spouse’s or parents’ employment, occupation, earnings, hours worked The entire final basic CPS interview is available with the data
Why link these data? With ATUS you get data from last month of participation in CPS Augment ATUS with CPS supplement information ASEC program participation, taxes, poverty, detailed income, self-reported health Tobacco use supplement for a different health measure Fertility supplement to tap into timing of women’s family formation
Eligible to Link to 2012 ASEC ATUS Linked to a Specific CPS Supplement ATUS data are collected on an ongoing basis This has implications for linking to CPS! Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2011 2012 Final CPS Interview Final CPS Interview 2012 ATUS Respondents ASEC 2012
ATUS/CPS Linking Variables Linking keys ATUS-X name RENAME ATUS-X HRHHID_CPS8 HRHHID HRHHID2_CPS8 (2004+) HRHHID2 HRSERSUF_CPS8 (2003 & 2004) use to create HRHHID2 HRSAMPLE_CPS8 (2003 & 2004) use to create HRHHID2 HUHHNUM_CPS8 (2003 & 2004) use to create HRHHID2 LINENO_CPS8 PULINENO See ATUS user’s guide for the mechanics Other helpful variables Variables to check links MONTH_CPS8 AGE_CPS8 YEAR_CPS8 SEX_CPS8 CASEID RACE_CPS8LINENO
Enter CPSIDP! IPUMS makes both CPS and ATUS data available CPSIDP is on both CPS and ATUS data files provided by IPUMS Simple to merge ATUS and CPS data
Example: Link ATUS respondents to most recent CPS Volunteer Supplement (September 2002-2009) Decide whether you want to link to most recent (MIS 5-8) or earlier in the CPS rotation pattern (MIS 1-4) Keep only respondents whose HRMONTH=9 & HRMIS>=5 & HRMIS<=8 Perform 1 to 1 merge with ATUS data file and each CPS file separately Merge on CPSIDP Each respondent should link to only one September data file with these restrictions While selected ATUS respondents should be in this supplement, you won’t find them all because of movement into households and non-response ATUS-X data file (2003-2009) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 CPS supplement data files
Back to Weights IPUMS Time Use documentation on adjusting ATUS weights so that cases in linked file are representative atusdata.org/ atus / linked_docs /linked_generic.pdf Alternative approach would be to adjust ATUS weights using IPF