Thursday, June 23, 2011

Americans increasingly choose leisure

Joe Light over at The Wall Street Journal has a piece about the 2010 American Time Use Survey released on Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (summary here).  He says that Americans are gaining more free time and:

According to the survey, that time has been allocated largely to leisure activities and sleep. In 2010, for example, Americans spent an average two hours and 31 minutes watching television on weekdays, up 5.4 minutes from 2007. They caught eight hours and 23 minutes of shut-eye per day, up more than five minutes from 2007.

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