Examining How Americans Spend Their Time (Free And Otherwise)

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Where does the time go? The Bureau of Labor Statistics knows. To shed light on how people spend a typical day, it conducted the American Time Use Study. About 21,000 people age 15 and up were asked to enumerate their activities from 4 a.m. on the day before they were interviewed until 4 a.m. on the day of the interview.

Some of the findings were predictable—for instance, the fact that women were twice as likely as men to have engaged in food preparation and cleanup the previous day.

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