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Labor Stats Show How Americans Spend Each Day

By pete_gallagher

A survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics provides some insight into how American's make use of their time.

In 2009, employed U.S. people worked an average of 7.5 hours a day. With employed men working an average of 56 minutes more per day than employed women. The disparity between genders was attributed to the 'greater likelihood' of women working part time. Additionally, on days they worked, 24 percent of employed people did some or all of their work from home.

As far as leisure time, television viewing was the most popular activity, taking up an average of 2.8 hours a day. Those surveyed who were over 75 years old or older averaged one hour of reading per weekend day and 26 minutes playing games or 'using a computer for leisure.'  By comparison, youngsters between the ages of 15 and 19 averaged only 5 minutes of reading on the weekend versus one hour playing games or using the computer, by far the highest total by age group.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).