How U.S. teens are spending their summer Teens average daily time use, summer 2013-2017, in hours: minutes the Volunteering work and 0:35 the Volunteering care work and 0:39 Education Grooming Housework 0:59
Teens now spend about seven and a half hours a day engaged in leisure activities during the summer. While this still accounts for the bulk of their waking hours, it represents a 24-minute decline from a decade ago. This decline has been largely driven by a 22-minute drop in time spent socializing or going to entertainment or sporting events.
On the flip side, teens now spend 18 more minutes a day in active pursuits such as playing sports or exercising compared with teens a decade ago. What has not changed substantially is the amount of time they spend on screens in the summer: Teens now devote more than three and a half hours a day to activities such as gaming, watching TV, surfing the web and watching videos – a figure that has ticked down only slightly in the past decade.
How U.S. teens are spending  | their summer  | Teens average daily time use, summer  | 2013-2017, in hours: minutes  | the Volunteering work and 0:35  | the Volunteering care work and  | 0:39  | Education  | 0:45  | Grooming  | Housework 0:59  | and errands  | Eating  | 1:15  | Paid work 1:18  | Other  | On  | leisure  | screens  | 1:02  | 3:42  | 1:19  | Leisure  | 7:33  | Exercising 1:30  | Socializing  | Sleep 10:27  | Note: Based on teens ages 15-17 Summer data based on  | the only. Activities lasting less than 15 minutes not shown  | "Socia alizing" includes attending parties extracurriculars  | sporting or other entertainment events and spending time  | with others in person or on the phone "On screens includes  | time spent gaming, surfing the web, watching videos fand  | watching TV  | Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2013-2017  | American Time Use Survey (IPUMS).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 