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<td class="conftext" width="445">Welcome to the "official" website for the <strong>American Time Use Survey (ATUS) Early Results Conference!</strong>  The conference was held December 8th and 9th, 2005 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland.</td>

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<td class="conftext" width="445" valign="top"><br>The ATUS Early Results Conference brought together over 120 researchers from across the United States and around the world to review preliminary research using the new ATUS dataset released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fourteen papers and 27 posters were presented across six sessions over the two day period. Presenting researchers came from a variety of disciplines including sociology, economics, government agencies and even medicine.<br><br>
<a href="../ES.pdf">Click here</a> to read the <strong> Executive Summary</strong>.
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<td class="conftext" width="445" valign="top">This website contains most of the presentations by conference participants including drafts of the papers, comments from paper discussants, and displayed posters. <br><br>For a general overview of the conference, download the "official" <a href="ATUSbooklet.pdf">conference booklet</a> featuring the conference program, participant bios and more.</td>

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