American Time Use Survey Activity Coding LexiconsThe ATUS Activity Coding Lexicon is a 3-tiered classification system with 17 first-tier categories. Each of the first-tier categories has two additional levels of detail. Respondents' reported activities are assigned 6-digit activity codes based on this classification system. Activity codes are periodically evaluated and updated prior to the start of each years data collection. This page contains links to the ATUS Activity Coding Lexicons. 2003 to 2007 Coding documentation
ATUS Single-Year Activity Coding Lexicons:
ATUS Multi-Year Activity Coding Lexicon:The ATUS 2003-07 Coding Lexicon (PDF) is only for use with the ATUS multi-year microdata files. Some of the activity codes listed in this lexicon are found only on the 2003-07 Activity and 2003-07 Activity Summary files. This lexicon contains no activity examples.
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