time use

Given the season, I wondered about the time we spend with others and who we spend our limited hours with.

Women and men tend to spend their days differently in the United States. Varying responsibilities and priorities will do that.

See how common activities were for a given time of day, age, and sex.

We get 24 hours in a day. How do we spend this time? How does our time use change as we get older and priorities shift?

In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay.

Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift.

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?

These are the states that eat dinner the earliest and latest, along with everyone else in between.

Maybe your best possible life is ahead of you.

Happiness and meaning do not always travel together. Sometimes we need to pursue meaning without the happiness, and vice versa.

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?

What people are doing when they are happy and not, from age 20 to 70.

These life satisfaction scores might make you want to rethink life.

We spend a lot of time working. It seems worth thinking about how we feel during all those hours.

Meaningfulness scores from the American Time Use Survey provide a hint of what we value.

Oftentimes what we’re doing isn’t so important as who we’re spending our time with.