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AMERICAN TIME USE SURVEY USER’S GUIDE
December 2014
Merging the Respondent file and the file that was just created, “cps,” yields a data set with 25,304
records. This is an excerpt of what it looks like:
Variables that were collected during the ATUS interview have missing values or blanks for persons who
did not participate in the ATUS interview. Use one of these variables to eliminate the records of
persons who did not participate in ATUS. For example, eliminate cases with no diary date, which
corresponds to instances where TUDIARYDATE is blank.
Sample SAS code:
data cps_resp (keep=tucaseid tufinlwgt gereg );
merge cps atusresp_2006;
by tucaseid;
if tudiarydate ne ' ';
run;
The resulting file now has 12,943 records and variables from the Respondent and ATUS-CPS files that
are needed to solve the problem.
(File name: cps_resp):
Now, merge the combined ATUS-CPS – Respondent file (file name: cps_resp) with the file that
summarizes how much time each respondent spent doing housework on the diary day (file name:
housewk). Merge the data files using the common identifying variable TUCASEID.
(File name: cps_resp_act):
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