How Do you Spend Your Day ? (Time Analysis)
Interesting NYT interactive chart showing how people spend time over the course of a day. It is also broken down by gender, age, race, education, etc.
It is kinda weird seeing how people spend their time each day: Note that the chart shows the percentage of what EVERYONE is doing at a given money over the course of a day doing a given activity at that moment.
On a personal note, I spend a lot more time using computers and on the internet than I do watching TV — the opposite of what most of the country does . . .
>
How Different People and Groups Spend Their Day
click for interactive graphic
chart via NYT
>
Source:
For the Unemployed, the Day Stacks Up Differently
AMANDA COX, KEVIN QUEALY and AMY SCHOENFELD
NYT, July 31, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02metrics.html
Tweet
Facebook
Reddit
Digg this!
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
Same here…zero tv….I’d rather read…
rt
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
That’s all a load of crap…
All I see ANYONE doing anymore (regardless of what they “say” they’re doing), is talking on the damn telephone, texting, or twittering…
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Phone calls 1%? Agreed with cvienne. This only makes sense if we consider the cellphone and its Borg-like bluetooth counterpart to be ubiquitous, i.e. the usage is pervasive across activities (even watching TV and movies). Hard to believe that computer use is 8 to 9 minutes per day. Not trusting this survey.
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:31 am
I agree with most on here…I barely watch TV and I use my phone a lot, whether it is for texting or calling or even updating my Facebook! My day job experience as a physical therapist coming across people of all walks of life indicates that TV watching is going down, but is likely skewed by certain populations (unemployed, older folks) who tend to watch more TV than the average.
I wonder where blogging/reading blogs comes in versus say, reading newspapers.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 am
was ‘Learning’, even, a Category?
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@BR
“BR: Yeah, I have this queued up for 4:30″
…Please do BR…
But it looks like Timmy & Charlie are already on the case…
Geithner Says Unemployment May Peak in Second Half of 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aFgRG8QbeKNY
Crocodile tears from Charlie Rangle in the excerpt (speaking on behalf of everyone needing votes in 2010)
“Congressman Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he supports extending unemployment insurance benefits for another 13 weeks.
“There’s no question, they deserve it,” he said on Fox News Sunday. “They are the true victims of this fiscal disaster.”
Meanwhile…since those votes will securely be everyones pockets, all that’s left will be to FUND the TV campaigns…No problem there, the fatcat bankers on Wall St. are back flush with cash (seems pricey bottles of wine & fat steaks are back on the menu as bonuses are about to be spent)…
Delmonico’s Reports the Green Shoots on Wall Street Are Not Just Asparagus
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ahRV7KbfekAw
And the beat goes on…
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
“All I see ANYONE doing anymore (regardless of what they “say” they’re doing), is talking on the damn telephone, texting, or twittering…”
How’s that for productivity :)
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
@jc
I just made a great post re: unemplotment benefits (with a lot of links)…but it got eaten by Word Press…
Maybe it’ll show up later
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
…now look at THAT time stamp!
I responded to JC two and a half hours BEFORE he even wrote a comment!
The all knowing/all seeing eye of cvienne…
I’m reading all of your thoughts as we speak!
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
“at a given money”?
BR has a one track mind…
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
So, the benefits of an advanced degree is you get longer lunch hours, huh? ;^)
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Anyone noticed the different patterns in time spent watching TV and Eating vs different ethnic groups. It is pretty interesting.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
When you click on sports, According to the graphic, “Men spend 27 minutes a day playing sports or watching them in person, about twice as much as women.”
Why are there so many people obese or out of proper physical condition if they spent 27 minutes per day playing sports? I doubt everyone is going to watch their son or daughter play sport in person for a half hour per day. I have a suspicion that the respondents might have inflated certain activities.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out = falling unemployment rate!
By ERIK ECKHOLM, NYT
Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.
Because of emergency extensions already enacted by Congress, laid-off workers in nearly half the states can collect benefits for up to 79 weeks, the longest period since the unemployment insurance program was created in the 1930s. But unemployment in this recession has proved to be especially tenacious, and a wave of job-seekers is using up even this prolonged aid.
Tens of thousands of workers have already used up their benefits, and the numbers are expected to soar in the months to come, reaching half a million by the end of September and 1.5 million by the end of the year, according to new projections by the National Employment Law Project, a private research group.
~~~
BR: Yeah, I have this queued up for 4:30
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
[...] Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture brings attention to an interactive chart published by the New York Times showing how different groups of people spend their time over the course of a typical day. [...]