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CHAD User's Guide: Extracting Human Activity Information from CHAD on the PC

The Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD) User Guide offers a short tutorial about CHAD Access; background on the CHAD Databases; background on individual studies in CHAD; and information about using CHAD data, caveats, known problems, notes, and database design and development.

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CHAD User's guide, June 2000 (PDF)(54 pp, 705 K, June 2000)