0.36 h
2025 (latest)
TIME CARING FOR HOUSEHOLD CHILDREN
hours/day · 2003–2025 · neither direction is "better" · BLS American Time Use Survey Table A-1 and public API
0.42 h
2003
0.43 h
high · 2004
0.36 h
low · 2022
−14%
since 2003
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. All persons age 15+, average hours per day including people who did not perform the activity. No 2020 annual estimate was published because pandemic-related collection gaps prevented a comparable annual estimate. Breaks: 2020 is absent because ATUS data collection was suspended during part of the year; activity and population definitions follow each annual table.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/TUU10101AA01010710
- https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables.htm
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Time caring for household children | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.36 h | −5% |
| 2024 | 0.38 h | +0% |
| 2023 | 0.38 h | +6% |
| 2022 | 0.36 h | −3% |
| 2021 | 0.37 h | +0% |
| 2019 | 0.37 h | −5% |
| 2018 | 0.39 h | −3% |
| 2017 | 0.40 h | +0% |
| 2016 | 0.40 h | +0% |
| 2015 | 0.40 h | −2% |
| 2014 | 0.41 h | +0% |
| 2013 | 0.41 h | +2% |
| 2012 | 0.40 h | +3% |
| 2011 | 0.39 h | −3% |
| 2010 | 0.40 h | −7% |
| 2009 | 0.43 h | +2% |
| 2008 | 0.42 h | +0% |
| 2007 | 0.42 h | +2% |
| 2006 | 0.41 h | −2% |
| 2005 | 0.42 h | −2% |
| 2004 | 0.43 h | +2% |
| 2003 | 0.42 h | — |
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