Formats of the files Hannu Pääkkönen Eurostat Technical Group “Time Use Survey”, 17 July 2014

Data files INDFILE Individual and household information file • Person as a unit DDFILE Diary day file • Day as a unit EFILE Episode file • Day as a unit You can name a file according to the file specification and by adding your country code to the end, e.g. indfile_FI.sas7bdat. Technical Group 17 July 2014

Data files Only data concerning persons aged 10 and over with at least one completed diary are included in the files Data from all members of the household are not necessarily needed Technical Group 17 July 2014

File formats The following file formats are recommended: SAS ver. 8.2 or later SAS portable file SPSS ver. 11 or later SPSS portable file Technical Group 17 July 2014

National deviations The definitions of the variables in the HETUS 2008 Guidelines Describe national deviations in the Excel file Send this document back to Statistics Finland Technical Group 17 July 2014

Missing value conventions (in hierarchical order) -6 Question not asked by the country -1 Not applicable (question not asked of diarist) -7 Refusal -8 Don’t know (only for questions for which a don’t know option was available) -9 Not available (no answer) Technical Group 17 July 2014

Individual and household information file INDFILE The variables included in the 2000 database New variables from the 2008 Guidelines Some variables have changed New variable name: e.g. HHQ3_1 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Individual and household information file INDFILE Linking variables (HID, PID, COUNTRY) Household composition variables (HHC1 to HHC5) Household circumstances variables (HHQ1 to HHQ10f) o child care o dwelling o durables O income o help with domestic tasks Technical Group 17 July 2014

Individual and household information file INDFILE Individual background and circumstance variables (INC1 to IND42_2) o basic demographic details o employment o income o unemployment and job search o education o health o country of birth, citizenship Technical Group 17 July 2014

Individual and household information file INDFILE Background information on the spouse/partner (IND30 TO IND37) Individual response weight (WGHT2) Technical Group 17 July 2014

Country of birth Technical Group 17 July 2014

Country of citizenship Technical Group 17 July 2014

Diary day file DDFILE Linking variables (HID, PID, DIARY, COUNTRY) Diary day variables (DDV1 to DDV7) Combined individual response and day weight (WGHT1) Technical Group 17 July 2014

Background questions? 2 At what time did you start the activity you were doing at the beginning of the diary day (04.00 am)? |___|___||___|___| Hh Mm 3 At what time did you stop doing the activity you were doing at the end of the diary day? |___|___||___|___| Technical Group 17 July 2014

Episode file EFILE Linking variables (HID, PID, DIARY, COUNTRY) Primary activity (Mact1 to Mact144 ) Secondary activity (Sact1 to Sact144, Sactn1 to Sactn144) Mode of transport and location (Where1 to Where144) Who else is present (Withn1 to Withn144) Binary code, main activity (Mcom1 to Mcom144) Binary code, main activity (Scom1 to Scom144) Technical Group 17 July 2014

Episode file EFILE YEAR HID PID DIARY COUNTRY Mact1-Mact144 Sact1-Sact144 Sactn1-Sactn144 Where1-Where144 With1n-Withn144 Mcom1-Mcom144 Scom1-Scom144 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Example: Computing as a main activity, Finland 2009–2010, aged 10+ years Hannu Pääkkönen 08/06/2012

Other main activity and a computer or Internet used, Finland 2009–2010, aged 10+ years Hannu Pääkkönen 08/06/2012

Next steps Questions about diary codes: “Do you have or able to create this activity category?” The first country ? Checking the data => contacts with the NSIs Aggregation of background variables Conversion of 3-digit primary and secondary activity codes to the aggregate classification at Statistics Finland Conversion of location codes Technical Group 17 July 2014

Control tables Three control tables will be sent to the NSIs: 1. Time use of population by life cycle and sex 2. Location of population by sex 3. Time use of population by age Technical Group 17 July 2014

Control table 1 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Control table 2 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Control table 3 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Next steps Possible corrections => contacts with the NSIs Delivery in stages to Eurostat => December 2016 Technical Group 17 July 2014

Contacts Hannu Pääkkönen hannu.paakkonen@stat.fi Riitta Hanifi (activity classification) riiitta.hanifi@stat.fi Pirjo Hyytiäinen (IT) pirjo.hyytiainen@stat.fi Paavo Väisänen (metadata, weighting) paavo.vaisanen@stat.fi Technical Group 17 July 2014