How do you access TUS 2024 data?

TUS 2024 is labeled “Registration required” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.

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TUS

Time Use Survey 2024

Name: Time Use Survey 2024
Creator: NSO / MoSPI

The Time Use Survey is used to study paid work, unpaid care, domestic work, learning, and leisure.

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labor women and children

Host / institution

NSO / MoSPI · NSO / MoSPI

Geography

India

Time coverage

January–December 2024

Update frequency

Episodic

What this is best for

Strongest official source for care and unpaid work

Main limitations

Episodic survey; not annual—compare carefully to 2019 TUS

Quick answers

Short research-facing answers derived from this catalog record.

What is TUS 2024 used for?: Strongest official source for care and unpaid work
How do you access TUS 2024 data?: TUS 2024 is labeled “Registration required” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.
What geography and time does TUS 2024 cover?: Geography: India. Time coverage: January–December 2024.
What are the main limitations of TUS 2024?: Episodic survey; not annual—compare carefully to 2019 TUS

Background & previous rounds

Background (previous rounds). Official Indian TUS is episodic, not annual. A 1998–99 pilot covered six states only (Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya)—not nationally representative. The first all-India Time Use Survey was January–December 2019 (NADA catalog/223, DDI-IND-CSO-TUS-2019-19), establishing the unpaid-care / domestic-work framework. TUS 2024 (NADA catalog/236, Jan–Dec 2024) is the second all-India wave. There is no continuous yearly TUS stack comparable to PLFS or ASI.

Full design timeline: TUS series page

Guides for using this data

Official portals, user guides, codebooks, and tutorials for access and analysis.

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Variables7

Live-fetched MoSPI portal + TUS microdata release notes (activity classification). Representative fields for the page table — verify the full dictionary on the official site.

Sourced from live host documentation

Open official dictionary

Name / code	Description	Group
HHID / PERSONID	Household and person identifiers	IDs
Paid work	Time in employment / paid work activities	Work
Unpaid care	Unpaid caregiving time	Care
Domestic services	Unpaid domestic work	Care
Learning	Education and learning time	Learning
Leisure / self-care	Leisure and personal care	Personal
Sector / state	Rural–urban and state codes	Geography

Formats

microdata · DDI · XML · JSON

Technical tags

household surveymicrodata

Example uses

Care economy and gender time allocation

Open access portal Documentation

Pairs well with

Many Indian data problems need survey + administrative combinations.