Click a colored square to see a time breakdown for that activity. Hover over the bars for more details on the selected activity.
Are you a student? Employed? A parent?
Wondering how you spend your time compares to someone with a different lifestyle?
Click on the checkboxes to visualize the time spent on daily activities for two different lifestyles.
The farther the circle is from the center, the more time that group spends on an activity.
Hover over the circles for tooltips, and over the activity labels for descriptions to appear below.
The circles represent the average time spent on an activity, and these averages are ranked in the whole population of survey respondents.
For example, an orange circle with a percentile of 90 for sleep means that on average,
respondents in the orange group spent more time on sleep than 90% of all respondents.
Sex | Employed | Multiple Jobs | In School | Parent |
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Male Female | Full Time Part Time | Yes No | Yes No N/A | Yes No |
Male Female | Full Time Part Time | Yes No | Yes No N/A | Yes No |
1. American Time Use Survey by Bureau of Labor Statistics
2. Cover Image by Robert Wallis
3. 'Did you know ?' from American Time Use Survey Summary
4. The Truth About How Americans Travel from
Telegraph
5. Dirty Secret: Why Is There Still A Housework Gender Gap? from The Guardian
6. Traffic: Why It's Getting Worse, What The Government Can Do from Brookings
7. The Worst Day and Time To Drive on Every Los Angeles Freeway from Curbed LA
8. Leisure in Retirement from Merrill Lynch
9. Who is Out of the Labor Force? from The Hamilton Project
10. Photos from Lonely Planet
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