{"id": 1210534, "name": "Time spent with other people over time - All people - Friend", "unit": "hours per day", "createdAt": "2026-04-01T20:24:21.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-04-01T20:24:21.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2010-2024", "datasetId": 7787, "shortUnit": "h", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "t__who_category_friend__gender_all_people", "catalogPath": "grapher/atus/2026-03-10/atus_time_spent_with/atus_who_years#t__who_category_friend__gender_all_people", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 366965, "name": "15-29 years", "code": null}, {"id": 367044, "name": "30-44 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371421, "name": "45-59 years", "code": null}, {"id": 371420, "name": "60+ years", "code": null}, {"id": 240200, "name": "All ages", "code": null}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Average time Americans spend with friend. This data is measured in hours per day and based on annual averages from surveys in the United States between 2010 and 2024.", "descriptionProcessing": "- Data points have been weighted to make them more representative of the population with the survey weights provided by ATUS in the original data.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019d4ab7-f051-79ee-abcb-6b190ad569a3", "datasetName": "American Time Use Survey", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-03-10", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "hours per day", "shortUnit": "h", "numSignificantFigures": 2}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Time Use"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data is based on the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which is conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is an annual, cross-sectional survey that measures how people spend their time and who they spend it with.", "The question is phrased as \"Who was with in the room with you?\" or \"Who accompanied you?\". If people are on a phone or video call, they are not counted as being with someone, unless someone else is in the room with them.", "We have combined some categories for presentation purposes: \"children\" include related and household children under 18, grandchildren and other related children under 18, \"friends\" include roommates or lodgers and \"partner\" includes spouses, boy-/girlfriends, and co-habiting partners.", "Time spent with multiple people can be counted more than once (e.g., attending a party with friends and partner counts toward both \"friends\" and \"partner\").", "The \"Other\" category includes all other relationships not covered by the other categories, such as neighbors, customers or non-related, non-household children.", "ATUS data were not collected during the period March 18, 2020 to May 9, 2020, which coincided with a time when most residents of the United States were encouraged to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Therefore, data collected for 2020 is not representative of the entire year."], "origins": [{"id": 14273, "titleSnapshot": "American Time Use Survey - Summary file", "title": "American Time Use Survey", "descriptionSnapshot": "The Activity summary file contains information about the total time each ATUS respondent spent doing each activity on the diary day for the ATUS 2003-2024.\n\nFor more information about this file, see the ATUS 2003-24 Interview Data Dictionary, available online at: https://www.bls.gov/tus/dictionaries/atusintcodebk0324.pdf", "description": "The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing. It provides nationally representative estimates of how, where, and with whom Americans spend their time, and is the only federal survey providing data on the full range of nonmarket activities, from childcare to volunteering.", "producer": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics", "citationFull": "American Time Use Survey, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/tus/, 2025.", "attributionShort": "BLS", "versionProducer": "03-24", "urlMain": "https://www.bls.gov/tus/data/datafiles-0324.htm", "urlDownload": "https://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles/atussum-0324.zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-03-10", "datePublished": "2025-06-26", "license": {"url": "https://www.bls.gov/opub/copyright-information.htm", "name": "Public Domain"}}]}