{
  "source": {
    "title": "American Time Use Survey, Table 3",
    "year": 2025,
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t03.htm",
    "technicalNote": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.tn.htm",
    "shutdownNote": "https://www.bls.gov/tus/notices/2026/october2025shutdown.htm",
    "columns": [
      "Personal care",
      "Eating and drinking",
      "Household activities",
      "Purchasing goods and services",
      "Caring for household members",
      "Caring for nonhousehold members",
      "Working and work-related activities",
      "Educational activities",
      "Organizational, civic, and religious activities",
      "Leisure and sports",
      "Telephone calls, mail, and e-mail",
      "Other activities"
    ],
    "nearZero": "Educational activities for ages 75+ are reported by BLS as approximately zero; encoded as 0, not a suppressed estimate."
  },
  "ages": [
    "15–19",
    "20–24",
    "25–34",
    "35–44",
    "45–54",
    "55–64",
    "65–74",
    "75+"
  ],
  "rawHours": [
    [
      10.93,
      1.18,
      0.71,
      0.38,
      0.07,
      0.06,
      0.71,
      3.45,
      0.51,
      5.66,
      0.18,
      0.16
    ],
    [
      10.44,
      1.13,
      1.37,
      0.62,
      0.41,
      0.07,
      3.85,
      0.88,
      0.19,
      4.67,
      0.17,
      0.21
    ],
    [
      9.82,
      1.13,
      1.58,
      0.59,
      0.79,
      0.04,
      4.58,
      0.42,
      0.13,
      4.5,
      0.11,
      0.29
    ],
    [
      9.4,
      1.16,
      1.98,
      0.72,
      1.23,
      0.09,
      4.83,
      0.09,
      0.17,
      3.89,
      0.12,
      0.32
    ],
    [
      9.49,
      1.22,
      2.18,
      0.66,
      0.51,
      0.27,
      4.7,
      0.03,
      0.25,
      4.3,
      0.17,
      0.23
    ],
    [
      9.67,
      1.19,
      2.18,
      0.75,
      0.16,
      0.24,
      3.83,
      0.04,
      0.28,
      5.21,
      0.19,
      0.26
    ],
    [
      9.63,
      1.27,
      2.74,
      0.88,
      0.13,
      0.25,
      1.14,
      0.03,
      0.46,
      6.9,
      0.31,
      0.28
    ],
    [
      9.87,
      1.49,
      2.73,
      0.82,
      0.09,
      0.14,
      0.26,
      0,
      0.42,
      7.39,
      0.41,
      0.37
    ]
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "care",
      "label": "Sleep & personal care",
      "color": "#9082c6",
      "columns": [
        0
      ],
      "description": "Sleep, getting ready, and other personal care. This published category includes more than sleep."
    },
    {
      "id": "work",
      "label": "Work",
      "color": "#e7a25c",
      "columns": [
        6
      ],
      "description": "Paid work and work-related activities, including related travel. Averaged over everyone in this age group and every day of the week, including people who did no work that day."
    },
    {
      "id": "leisure",
      "label": "Leisure & sports",
      "color": "#78a891",
      "columns": [
        9
      ],
      "description": "Socializing, relaxing, TV, games, sports, exercise, and other leisure activities."
    },
    {
      "id": "home",
      "label": "Home & errands",
      "color": "#d88688",
      "columns": [
        2,
        3
      ],
      "description": "Housework, cooking, household management, and purchasing goods and services, including related travel."
    },
    {
      "id": "help",
      "label": "Caring for others",
      "color": "#6ba5b9",
      "columns": [
        4,
        5
      ],
      "description": "Helping and caring for people inside and outside the household as the main activity. Childcare done alongside another main activity is not included here."
    },
    {
      "id": "education",
      "label": "Learning",
      "color": "#d3ba65",
      "columns": [
        7
      ],
      "description": "Classes, homework, and other educational activities, including related travel. This is a survey category, not a measure of all learning in daily life."
    },
    {
      "id": "food",
      "label": "Eating & drinking",
      "color": "#ad987d",
      "columns": [
        1
      ],
      "description": "Time spent eating and drinking as the main activity."
    },
    {
      "id": "other",
      "label": "Community & other",
      "color": "#919ba6",
      "columns": [
        8,
        10,
        11
      ],
      "description": "Organizational, civic, and religious activities; calls, mail, and email; and other activities not classified elsewhere."
    }
  ]
}