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New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Americans spent an average of 2.75 hours watching TV each day last year, down from 2.82 hours in 2010. (I think the likeliest explanation for the decline is simply that Americans are working longer.) The tables in the link above provide a breakdown of TV watching and other leisure activity across a range of demographics, the most striking of which is age. Americans between 25 and 34 years old, which includes myself, spend the least amount of time watching TV, and it grows steadily from there with age. That’s been roughly true for a decade, but it’s hard to predict whether my generation will eschew TV over time or pick up the habit as we get older. And let’s not even touch the question of how to define “watching TV.”
