Installing Maverick wiped out my Outlook contacts.  How do I get them back?

I installed Maverick and it wiped out my contacts in Outlook.  I have been automatically backing up with time machine but it won't restore from my previous points.  I can see them there but when I click restore they don't show up in Outlook.  There must be a way to restore them from time machine?

Hello Clinton,
I have been working with this proble since last Wednesday and because of my schedule at the end of this week I wasn't able to try what you suggested until late last night.  Restoring the User Data as you suggested did not work.
I think I found the contacts in a saved Time Machine backup from earlier this week but can't get it to restore. 
I don't know why the Maverick install wiped out my data.  I am using an iMac and have been using Microsoft Office for Mac from the beginning.  The update for Maverick came up on Thursday and I installed it.  The install went smoothly, no hang up or problem questions.  I believe it took just over an hour.  After the system automatically restarted I opened Outlook to check my email. 
I had to completely start from scratch and set up my email addresses again.  The Outlook data for my Outlook Contacts was missing all but my individual contact.  All of the other contact data is missing. 
This is a very big deal to me.  I always assumed I could restore it through the Time Machine backups that go onto external hard drives.  I rotate to the next one every month or so.  The backup seems to be fine. 
I have been able to restablish my emails and so far everything else on the Mac seems to be ok.  But for some reason I can't get me data back into the contact section of my Outlook database.
If you have any suggestions I would be willing to try about anything right now.  Thankx for helping...........Pitt

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