time use

From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency.

It seems like no matter what I do, I cannot sleep through the night. Will it ever let up? According to the data, the answer is no and it will only get worse.

The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. That makes 15 years of data. What’s different? What’s the same?

The day-to-day changes a lot when you have kids. However, it seems to change more for women than it does for men.

I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here’s where the minutes go.

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.

How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays.

Sleep. Work. Play. The times and everything in between change depending on who you talk to.

It’s harder to make friends as you get older. There aren’t as many…

There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?

I simulated a day for employed Americans to see when and where they work.

This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.

Looking at American time use for various combinations of sex, age, and employment status, on weekdays and weekends.

Here are the mothers and fathers who work like you.

Articles about stay-at-home dads and parents with even work loads might make it seem like dads are putting in a lot of hours in the household these days. Are they? How do they compare to moms’ work hours?

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

Typical time use varies by who you talk to. This interactive shows you the differences when you vary age and sex.