2006 American Time Use Survey — 2007-06-28

(NOTE: This release was reissued on Thursday, July 19, 2007, to correct the phrase in the first paragraph of "The Average Day" section that originally read "remaining 5.1 hours" to read "remaining 4.7 hours." This correction did not affect any tables in the release. On June 3, 2008, the following tables of the HTML version of this release were corrected: tables 4, 7, 9, 10, and 12; in this case, the PDF version was not affected.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today that in 2006: --Employed persons worked 7.6 hours on average on the days that they worked. They worked more hours on weekdays than on weekend days-- 8.0 versus 5.4 hours. --On the days that they worked, employed men worked about an hour more than employed women--8.0 versus 7.1 hours.