Teens now enjoy more than five and a half hours of leisure a day (5 hours, 44 minutes). (While these findings are derived from time diaries in which respondents record the amount of time they slept on the prior night, results from other types of surveys suggest teens are getting fewer hours of sleep.) Sleep patterns fluctuate quite a bit – on weekends, teens average about 11 hours, while on weekdays they typically get just over nine hours a night. They are clocking an average of over nine and a half hours of sleep a night, an increase of 22 minutes compared with teens a decade ago and almost an hour more than those in the mid-1990s. Teens are also getting more shut-eye than they did in the past.
Overall, teens (ages 15 to 17) spend an hour a day, on average, doing homework during the school year, up from 44 minutes a day about a decade ago and 30 minutes in the mid-1990s. But what has not changed are the differences between teen boys and girls in time spent on leisure, grooming, homework, housework and errands, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. They’re devoting more time to sleep and homework, and less time to paid work and socializing. Teens today are spending their time differently than they did a decade ago. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Above, a student works on homework while her sister hangs out. Teens spend an average of 16 minutes more per day doing homework than they did around 2005.
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