During the pandemic, the nation's teenagers spent most of their leisure time in front of a screen, according to the latest data from the...

The amount of time people aged 15 or older spent in leisure activities increased in 2020 compared with 2019—rising from 4.99 to 5.53 hours o...

The time it takes Americans to commute to work hit a record high in 2019, just before start of the coronavirus pandemic. The average one-way...

Modern American parents do not devote all that much time to child care. Instead, they depend on day care providers, schools, and extracurric...

The decline in television viewing among younger Americans continues, according to the 2019 American Time Use Survey. People under age 55 are...

How much of your day revolves around food? If you're an average American, then it's a lot. Food-related activities rank fourth in th...

The average worker works 4.77 days a week. Sixty-eight percent of workers work Monday through Friday. But 19 percent of workers usually work...

The time use of young adults has changed a lot due to the baby bust. A smaller share of people aged 20 to 34 spent time caring for household...

Americans aged 60 or older spend more than half their waking hours alone—7 hours a day, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the B...

Nearly one in five Americans aged 15 or older (19 percent) participates in sports, exercise, or recreation on an average day, according to t...

On an average day, 11 percent of Americans aged 15 or older play games, according to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). This time use cate...

"You talkin' to me?" That famous line could describe the response of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to a critical  NBER study ...

If you've ever wondered why Americans are increasingly overweight, the American Time Use Survey may have the answer. Not only do we spen...

Everyone knows that women do more housework than men. Each year the American Time Use Survey documents the difference. The 2017 survey finds...

On an average day in 2017, teenaged boys aged 15 to 19 spent 1.3 hours playing games as a primary activity, according to the American Time U...

Young adults aren't watching as much television as they once did, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Sur...

It's not who you think it is. Healthy weight adults (with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.99), spent the most time eating on an average day in 2016,...

Nearly 80 percent of children under age 18 live with siblings, according to the Census Bureau. But no one has examined how the presence of s...

Thanksgiving is unique in more ways than turkey. It is the only holiday on which Americans spend less time enjoying their meal than they do ...

Nearly everyone (95 percent) engages in primary eating and drinking at least once a day, reports the USDA's Economic Research Service. A...