From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency.
time use
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Sleep Schedule, From the Inconsistent Teenage Years to Retirement
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Restless Sleep With Age
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.
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How the American Work Day Changed in 15 Years
The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. That makes 15 years of data. What’s different? What’s the same?
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Differences Between Women and Men’s Everyday with Kids
The day-to-day changes a lot when you have kids. However, it seems to change more for women than it does for men.
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How Much the Everyday Changes When You Have Kids
I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here’s where the minutes go.
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Data comic shows an average American day
Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for…
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A Day in the Life: Women and Men
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.
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Remote Workers vs. Non-Remote Workers
How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays.
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American Daily Routine
Sleep. Work. Play. The times and everything in between change depending on who you talk to.
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Peak times for leisure and sports
The American Time Use Survey asks people what they do during the day.…
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Alone Time
It’s harder to make friends as you get older. There aren’t as many…
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Giving Up Time as a Parent
There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?
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A Day in the Life: Work and Home
I simulated a day for employed Americans to see when and where they work.
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How the Average Working Adult Spends Days
This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.
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How People Like You Spend Their Time
Looking at American time use for various combinations of sex, age, and employment status, on weekdays and weekends.
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Working Parents
Here are the mothers and fathers who work like you.
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Shifting Parent Work Hours, Mom vs. Dad
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?
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Sum of life’s parts
What if you relived life’s activities in big clumps? Thirty years of sleeping…
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A Day in the Life of Americans
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.
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Most Common Use of Time, By Age and Sex
Typical time use varies by who you talk to. This interactive shows you the differences when you vary age and sex.