Charts of the day: How we spent our time in 2021

Today is ATUS day, the day when the BLS releases the latest numbers from the American Time Use Survey. I was looking forward to comparing 2021 with 2020, but I forgot that ATUS had been suspended in 2020 due to COVID.

Still, we have charts. Here's one for the percentage of people who worked at home in 2021:

According to the BLS, this compares to 24% who worked at home in 2019. Unfortunately, this particular statistic doesn't appear to be available in their database tool, so I can't get a time series for it. However, you'll be unsurprised to learn that working at home is primarily an elite activity:

And here are a couple of old favorites. First, the amount of time spent in various activities for men and women:

Second, the number of men and women engaged in household work:

As usual, when you add up hours worked outside the home and hours engaged in housework (childcare, cleaning, food prep, etc.) they come out nearly the same for men and women. I put it at 6.82 hours per day for men and 6.93 hours for women in 2021, but if I chose a slightly different set of activities the numbers would change.

(These are averages for working-age people. It doesn't include retirees, but it does include people who don't work or who work part-time. This is why the numbers seem low: Men worked an average of 5.23 hours per day and women worked an average of 3.83 hours.)

I might have more later if I dig up anything that seems especially interesting.