Results of the 2013 American Time Use Survey show that on an average day in 2013, individuals in the U.S. age 15 and over slept 8.7 hours and did work and work-related activities for 3.5 hours. For individuals employed full time, an average weekday.
on days that they worked included 7.8 hours sleeping and 9.2 hours doing work and work-related activities. Approximately 11,400 individuals were interviewed for the survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Survey respondents sequentially reported activities they did between 4 a.m. on the day before the interview until 4 a.m. on the day of the interview. Learn more at www.bls.gov/tus.
