Table 5. Time spent providing eldercare and percent of eldercare providers engaging in caregiving by sex and caregiving activity, averages for the combined years 2023-2024

Table 5. Time spent providing eldercare and percent of eldercare providers engaging in caregiving by sex and caregiving activity, averages for the combined years 2023-2024
Caregiving activity	Eldercare providers
	Percent distribution of time spent in selected eldercare activities			On days they provided care
	Total	Men	Women	Percent who engaged in caregiving activity(1)			Average hours spent providing care
	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
Total, activities reported as care done for those age 65 and over	100.0	100.0	100.0	(1)-	(1)-	(1)-	3.88	3.78	3.95
Eating and drinking	8.1	9.4	7.3	29.1	28.4	29.6	0.32	0.35	0.29
Household activities	22.9	22.5	23.2	42.1	41.4	42.5	0.89	0.85	0.92
Housework	6.1	2.9	8.3	15.1	11.9	17.4	0.24	0.11	0.33
Food preparation and cleanup	10.7	10.6	10.7	32.7	29.7	34.9	0.41	0.40	0.42
Lawn and garden care	2.6	4.6	1.3	4.5	7.4	2.4	0.10	0.17	0.05
Household management	1.0	0.7	1.3	5.7	3.7	7.0	0.04	0.02	0.05
Purchasing goods and services	3.5	2.6	4.1	14.0	12.4	15.2	0.14	0.10	0.16
Caring for and helping household members	9.0	6.7	10.6	20.9	15.7	24.7	0.35	0.25	0.42
Caring for household adults	7.8	5.9	9.2	19.0	13.3	23.1	0.30	0.22	0.36
Physical care for household adults	4.5	2.7	5.8	13.1	7.6	17.0	0.18	0.10	0.23
Providing medical care to household adults	1.4	2.1	1.0	6.9	5.3	8.0	0.06	0.08	0.04
Helping household adults	0.5	0.4	0.6	3.1	3.6	2.8	0.02	0.01	0.02
Caring for and helping nonhousehold members	8.8	7.9	9.5	22.9	21.5	23.9	0.34	0.30	0.37
Caring for nonhousehold adults	3.8	2.2	4.9	10.1	6.5	12.6	0.15	0.08	0.19
Physical care for nonhousehold adults	2.0	1.5	2.3	4.4	3.6	4.9	0.08	0.06	0.09
Providing medical care to nonhousehold adults	0.4	0.3	0.4	2.6	1.8	3.2	0.01	(2)-	0.02
Helping nonhousehold adults	4.9	5.5	4.4	16.0	16.2	16.0	0.19	0.21	0.18
Housework, cooking, and shopping assistance for nonhousehold adults	2.2	2.0	2.3	6.7	5.1	7.8	0.08	0.08	0.09
House and lawn maintenance and repair assistance for nonhousehold adults	1.0	1.2	0.8	1.9	3.2	1.1	0.04	0.05	(2)-
Picking up and dropping off nonhousehold adults	0.3	0.3	0.3	4.5	4.4	4.5	0.01	0.01	0.01
Working and work-related activities	4.5	9.4	1.2	2.7	4.9	1.1	0.18	(2)-	(2)-
Organizational, civic, and religious activities	1.6	0.7	2.2	4.0	2.0	5.5	0.06	0.03	0.09
Leisure and sports	33.7	35.0	32.8	38.5	31.4	43.6	1.31	1.32	1.30
Socializing and communicating	10.5	8.5	11.9	22.0	14.8	27.3	0.41	0.32	0.47
Watching TV	17.5	21.8	14.5	17.0	17.6	16.6	0.68	0.82	0.57
Participating in sports, exercise, and recreation	0.6	0.6	0.6	3.2	2.2	3.8	0.02	(2)-	0.02
Telephone calls, mail, and e-mail	1.7	0.7	2.3	6.1	2.8	8.5	0.06	0.03	0.09
Traveling	5.2	4.8	5.5	26.5	24.2	28.2	0.20	0.18	0.22
Other activities, not elsewhere classified	0.9	0.4	1.2	4.4	2.5	5.9	0.03	0.01	0.05
Footnotes (1) Percents sum to more than 100 percent because some eldercare providers did more than one care activity on days they provided care. (2) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards.
NOTE: Eldercare providers are those who, in the previous 3 to 4 months, cared for someone with a condition related to aging. Estimates were calculated for people who cared for at least one person age 65 or older. Data refer to people 15 years and over.

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