At the Data Section chairs meeting in January we had a presentation from Diane Herz or the Bureau of Labor Force Statistics on the American Time Use Survey that they are doing. Attached are her powerpoints. For general information on the ATUS see the BLS web site http://www.bls.gov/tus/ Also of interest may be the Time Use Survey Resource Center... "BLS has recently released data from the new American Time Use Survey (ATUS). These data should be enormously useful for addressing a wide range of research issues. To facilitate research using these exciting new data, the Maryland Population Research Center is establishing a user forum through which researchers can share information about problems they encounter in working with the data and exchange information that may be of general utility in preparing the data for analysis. The site also will provide links to a variety of other information of interest to time use researchers." There is also a call for papers for a Dec 2005 conference in Wash DC. see http://www.atususers.umd.edu/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461