2009: How Americans Spent Their Time - Chart Porn

2009: How Americans Spent Their Time

In: Culture Employment Source: WSJ

28 Jun 2010

Roll-over details alleviate the normal pie-chart problems (somewhat). However, who averages 8.6 hours of sleep a day and only 3.5 hours of work? Maybe I’m just not average. The related article talks about the impact of higher unemployment on this data.

1 Response to 2009: How Americans Spent Their Time

June 28th, 2010 at 3:50 pm

Yep, the data as shown is pretty useless – lumping unemployed and employed makes it hard to discern whether greater unemployment, or fewer work hours for the employed is affecting the data. A shame, as that data is available.

I would guess sleep is when you go to bed/get up, not when you actually fall asleep/wake….

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