Household services time benchmarks

The standing 2023 edition reports mean daily household-production and caregiving time across 385 U.S. cohorts using pooled 2003–2023 ATUS observations, documented weighting, activity taxonomy, variance, and confidence intervals. Preserve national scope, edition, observation window, cohort, activity, hours unit, method, and update context; do not infer local time benchmarks.

BLS public-use files provide respondent minutes by pooled activity code, cohort variables, childcare and eldercare context, survey period, released geography, and final person-day weights. They support national household/caregiving time benchmarks only through documented weighted aggregation; preserve cohort, activity taxonomy/version, person-day basis, observation years, release context, and released-geography limits.