Raw data: Time spent with others

In the American Time Use Survey, there are three big categories of time spent with non-family members (other than work): civic/religious activities, volunteering, and socializing.  Here's what that looks like over the past 20 years:

Time spent with others is fairly flat until 2010. Since then it's been declining rapidly, helped along by a big drop during the pandemic that we never recovered from. Today we spend less than hour per day in social activities, a drop of 25% since the beginning of the century.

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Author Of article : Kevin Drum

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