ATUS Case ID (14-digit identifier)
ATUS person line number
Year of diary day (year of day about which respondent was interviewed)
Month of diary day (month of day about which ATUS respondent was interviewed)
Edited: what was the main reason you were absent from your job last week?
Edited: total weekly overtime earnings (2 implied decimals)
Edited: excluding overtime pay, tips, and commissions, what is your hourly rate
Edited: how many hours do you usually work per week at this rate?
Edited: hourly/non-hourly status
Edited: for your main job, what is the easiest way for you to report your total
Edited: even though you told me it is easier to report your earnings another way
Edited: do you usually receive overtime pay, tips, or commissions at your main j
Edited: how many weeks a year do you get paid?
Edited: do you usually work more than 35 hours per week at your job(s)/family bu
Edited: how many hours per week do you usually work at your main job?
Edited: how many hours per week do you usually work at your other job(s)?
Edited: total hours usually worked per week (sum of TEHRUSL1 and TEHRUSL2)
Edited: individual class of worker code (main job)
Edited: industry code (main job)
Edited: occupation code (main job)
Edited: could you have returned to work in the last seven days if you had been r
Edited: even though you expect to be called back to work, have you been looking
Edited: labor force status
Edited: could you have started a job in the last seven days if one had been offe
Edited: what are all of the things you have done to find work during the last 4
Edited: in the last seven days did you have more than one job?
Edited: do you currently want a job, either full or part time?
Edited: are you enrolled in high school, college, or university?
Edited: are you enrolled as a full-time or part-time student?
Edited: would that be high school, college, or university?
Edited: employment status of spouse or unmarried partner
Edited: usual hours of work of spouse or unmarried partner
Number of household children < 18
Full time or part time employment status of respondent
Detailed industry recode (main job)
Detailed occupation recode (main job)
Hourly earnings (2 implied decimals)
Earnings update flag
Weekly earnings (2 implied decimals)
TRERNHLY: allocation flag
Presence of household children < 18
Flag to indicate if diary day was a holiday
Intermediate industry recode (main job)
Major industry recode (main job)
Major occupation recode (main job)
Major occupation category (main job)
Presence of own non-household child < 18
Number of people living in respondent's household
Presence of own household children < 18
Full time or part time employment status of spouse or unmarried partner
Presence of the respondent's spouse or unmarried partner in the household
Total time respondent spent alone (in minutes)
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for household an
Total time respondent spent with customers, clients, and coworkers
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for all children
Total time respondent spent with household or non-household children < 18
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for non-own, non
Total time respondent spent with family members
Total time respondent spent with friends
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for household ch
Total time respondent spent with household family members
Total time respondent spent with non-own children < 18
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for non-own hous
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for own children
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for own househol
Total time respondent spent with own household children < 18
Total time spent during diary day providing secondary childcare for own non-hous
Total time respondent spent with own non-household children < 18
Total time respondent spent with spouse only
Total time respondent spent with spouse (others may be present)
Total time respondent spent with unmarried partner (others may be present)
TRERNWA: allocation flag
Age of youngest household child < 18
Hourly pay topcode flag
Overtime amount topcode flag
Weekly earnings topcode flag
In the last seven days, did you have a job either full or part time?
Does anyone in the household own a business or a farm?
In the last seven days, did you do any unpaid work in the family business or far
Do you receive payments or profits from the business?
TULINENO of farm or business owner (first owner)
TULINENO of farm or business owner (second owner)
TULINENO of farm or business owner (third owner)
TULINENO of farm or business owner (fourth owner)
ATUS base weight
Time first household child < 13 woke up
Time last household child < 13 went to bed
Reason respondent did not report secondary childcare activities for non-own hous
Reason respondent did not report secondary childcare activities for own househol
Are the non-own, non-household children you cared for in TUCC8 related to you?
Date of diary day (date about which the respondent was interviewed)
Day of the week of diary day (day of the week about which the respondent was int
Last time we spoke to someone in this household you were reported to have a disa
Does your disability prevent you from accepting any kind of work during the next
Do you have a disability that prevents you from accepting any kind of work durin
Weekly overtime earnings (2 implied decimals)
What is your hourly rate of pay on this job, excluding overtime pay, tips, or co
ATUS final weight
In the last seven days did you do any work for pay or profit?
Is this business or organization mainly manufacturing, retail trade, wholesale t
Last time we spoke to someone in this household, you were reported to work for (
Have the usual activities and duties of your job changed since (month of CPS int
Last time we spoke to someone in this household, you were reported as (occupatio
During the last seven days were you on layoff from your job?
Have you been given any indication that you will be recalled to work within the
Why could you not have started a job in the last week?
Has your employer given you a date to return to work? (to layoff job)
Have you been doing anything to find work during the last four weeks?
Why could you not have started a job last week?
You said you have been trying to find work. How did you go about looking? (first
TULKDK1 text: (second method)
TULKDK1 text: (third method)
TULKDK1 text: (fourth method)
TULKDK1 text: (fifth method)
TULKDK1 text: (sixth method)
What are all of the things you have done to find work during the last 4 weeks? (
TULKM2 text: (third method)
TULKM2 text: (fourth method)
TULKM2 text: (fifth method)
TULKM2 text: (sixth method)
Can you tell me more about what you did to search for work? (first method)
TULKPS1 text: (second method)
TULKPS1 text: (third method)
TULKPS1 text: (fourth method)
TULKPS1 text: (fifth method)
TULKPS1 text: (sixth method)
The last time we spoke to someone in this household you were reported to be reti
In the last seven days, did your spouse or unmarried partner have a job either f
Does your spouse or unmarried partner usually work 35 hours or more per week?
In the last seven days, did your spouse or unmarried partner do any work for pay
TEABSRSN: allocation flag
TEERN: allocation flag
TEERNH1O: allocation flag
TEERNH2: allocation flag
TEERNHRO: allocation flag
TEERNHRY: allocation flag
TEERNPER: allocation flag
TEERNRT: allocation flag
TEERNUOT: allocation flag
TEERNWKP: allocation flag
TEHRFTPT: allocation flag
TEHRUSL1: allocation flag
TEHRUSL2: allocation flag
TEHRUSLT: allocation flag
TEIO1COW: allocation flag
TEIO1ICD: allocation flag
TEIO1OCD: allocation flag
TELAYAVL: allocation flag
TELAYLK: allocation flag
TELFS: allocation flag
TELKAVL: allocation flag
TELKM1: allocation flag
TEMJOT: allocation flag
TERET1: allocation flag
TESCHENR: allocation flag
TESCHFT: allocation flag
TESCHLVL: allocation flag
TESPEMPNOT: allocation flag
TESPUHRS: allocation flag
TRTCC_LN and TRTCC: allocation flag
TRTCCTOT_LN and TRTCCTOT: allocation flag
TRTCOC_LN and TRTCOC: allocation flag
TRTHH_LN and TRTHH: allocation flag
TRTNOHH_LN and TRTNOHH: allocation flag
TRTO_LN and TRTO: allocation flag
TRTOHH_LN and TRTOHH: allocation flag
TRTONHH_LN and TRTONHH: allocation flag
group(tucaseid)