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American Time Use Survey

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.

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Latest Numbers

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AVERAGE HOURS PER DAY News Release

Household activities: 1.89 in 2022 Historical Data

Eating and drinking: 1.23 in 2022 Historical Data

Leisure and sports: 5.20 in 2022 Historical Data

Sleeping: 9.02 in 2022 Historical Data

Caring for and helping household children, parents: 1.34 in 2022 Historical Data

Working, employed persons: 5.08 in 2022 Historical Data

Working on days worked, employed persons: 7.69 in 2022 Historical Data

PERCENT PARTICIPATING ON AN AVERAGE DAY

Working, employed persons: 66.1 in 2022 Historical Data

Participating in sports, exercise, and recreation: 20.1 in 2022 Historical Data

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News Releases

34% of employed persons do some work at home on days they work in 2022

06/22/2023

In 2022, 34 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at home on days they worked, and 69 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at their workplace.
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In 2021-22, 14% of the U.S. population, or 37.1 million people, provide unpaid eldercare

09/21/2023

Fourteen percent of the U.S. population provides eldercare--unpaid care for someone with a condition related to aging--to others. On a given day, 28 percent of eldercare providers engage in eldercare, spending an average of 3.6 hours in eldercare activities.
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Publications

The Economics Daily

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Time spent in leisure and sports activities, 2022

On an average day in 2022, nearly everyone age 15 and older (95 percent) engaged in some sort of leisure and sport activity, such as watching TV, socializing, or exercising. Of those who engaged in leisure and sports activities, men spent more time in these activities (5.8 hours) than did women (5.1 hours). read more »

Monthly Labor Review

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Does part-time work offer flexibility to employed mothers?

Mothers working part time have jobs with reduced availability of family-friendly benefits and wages compared with mothers working full time. read more »

Spotlight on Statistics

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Job Flexibilities and Work Schedules in 2017–18

This Spotlight on Statistics looks at the percentage of wage and salary workers with flexible work arrangements, including workers’ ability and choices to work at home and adjust their work hours. This Spotlight also examines who works which schedules and why. read more »