In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it’s felt like things are getting back to where they were. How back are we?
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Are we back yet?
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When is Dinner, by State
These are the states that eat dinner the earliest and latest, along with everyone else in between.
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Best Possible Life More Common with Age
Maybe your best possible life is ahead of you.
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Mixed Feelings of Happiness and Meaning
Happiness and meaning do not always travel together. Sometimes we need to pursue meaning without the happiness, and vice versa.
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Happiness and Meaning in What We Do
There are things that make us happy. There are things where we find meaning in the everyday. What are the things that give us both?
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When Americans Are Happiest
What people are doing when they are happy and not, from age 20 to 70.
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Life Satisfaction and Age
These life satisfaction scores might make you want to rethink life.
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Feelings at Work
We spend a lot of time working. It seems worth thinking about how we feel during all those hours.
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Where We Find Meaning in the Everyday
Meaningfulness scores from the American Time Use Survey provide a hint of what we value.
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Time splits from a visualization freelancer
Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and…
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Cost of breastfeeding, seen in self-tracked data
There are baby formula shortages in the United States. A criticism from some…
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How Much Time We Spend Alone and With Others
Oftentimes what we’re doing isn’t so important as who we’re spending our time with.
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Who We Spend Time with as We Get Older
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.
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Most Common Daily Routines
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
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How Men and Women Spend Their Days
Using an oldie but goodie visualization format to look at time use between different groups.
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How Much More Time We Spent at Home
We had to do more from home. Here’s how much everything shifted by total minutes in a day.
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Cycle of Many, a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans
This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans.
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Daily Routine, 2020
After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.
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How We Spent Our Time in 2020 Versus 2019
Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.
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How time use changed in 2020
Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for The New York Times compared time use…