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Time spent working, 2011

July 02, 2012

On the days that they worked, employed persons spent an average of 7.6 hours working. Employed persons worked more hours, on average, on weekdays than on weekend days—8.0 hours compared with 5.7 hours.

Employed persons time spent working on days worked, by sex and day of week, 2011
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On the days that they worked, employed men (who worked 8.0 hours on an average day) worked 47 minutes more than employed women (who worked 7.2 hours). This difference partly reflects women's greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women—8.3 hours compared with 7.8 hours.

Employed persons time spent working on days worked, by sex and day of week, 2011
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These data are from the American Time Use Survey. For more information, see "American Time Use Survey — 2011 Results" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-12-1246.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Time spent working, 2011 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2012/ted_20120702.htm (visited October 12, 2024).

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