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    ATUS TOPICS PAPERS AND RESEARCH OTHER TIME-USE LINKS INFORMATION FOR RESPONDENTS                  Table A-4A. Percent of employed persons working on their main job on days they worked by occupation and hour of day, 12 AM to 11 AM, average for the combined years 2011-15   Occupation 12 AM 1 AM 2 AM 3 AM 4 AM 5 AM 6 AM 7 AM 8 AM 9 AM 10 AM 11 AM     Total, 15 years and over

 4.4 3.7 3.1 3.0 4.4 6.4 13.6 28.4 51.2 64.5 68.6 69.9   Management, professional, and related occupations

 2.8 2.0 1.5 1.4 2.5 3.6 8.5 22.1 49.9 68.6 73.3 73.8   Management, business, and financial operations occupations

 2.2 1.5 0.8 0.8 2.1 3.6 9.0 23.4 51.5 70.6 75.8 77.0   Management occupations

 2.4 1.7 0.9 0.9 2.5 4.0 9.5 23.9 50.6 68.8 74.1 74.7   Business and financial operations occupations

 1.6 1.0 0.6 0.4 1.2 2.9 7.8 22.2 53.7 74.9 79.9 82.4   Professional and related occupations

 3.3 2.3 1.9 1.9 2.8 3.6 8.2 21.1 48.7 67.2 71.4 71.4   Computer and mathematical occupations

 1.9 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 5.9 20.3 47.5 73.2 78.9 82.1   Architecture and engineering occupations

 1.8 1.3 0.9 0.4 2.2 3.8 14.6 34.9 64.4 81.8 84.3 79.8   Life, physical, and social science occupations

 3.3 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.3 3.5 9.3 20.0 48.1 65.1 71.8 73.6   Community and social services occupations

 3.3 2.0 2.1 1.3 2.2 3.0 5.8 13.6 41.7 63.2 70.7 71.8   Legal occupations

 1.2 0.5 0.2 0.8 0.3 0.7 1.4 8.4 42.2 74.5 79.3 82.9   Education, training, and library occupations

 1.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.6 1.2 4.1 17.1 51.0 67.3 68.9 65.8   Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

 5.1 3.6 0.9 0.6 1.9 2.9 6.9 14.9 32.1 48.9 57.2 62.1   Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 7.4 6.1 6.2 6.8 9.1 10.2 15.8 31.4 52.9 65.6 69.2 69.0   Service occupations

 7.9 6.8 5.8 5.8 6.8 8.3 15.4 25.7 39.6 50.4 53.3 58.5   Healthcare support occupations

 9.7 9.5 8.2 10.4 12.4 12.8 19.4 25.1 40.7 57.2 58.9 58.5   Protective service occupations

 20.7 17.9 15.8 17.2 19.3 21.3 26.9 34.9 47.0 52.4 53.5 54.3   Food preparation and serving related occupations

 6.0 5.0 4.0 2.6 2.8 4.6 12.6 19.8 28.9 37.3 40.8 52.5   Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 5.4 4.2 3.2 3.0 3.5 5.3 14.7 34.0 52.8 60.1 62.9 67.2   Personal care and service occupations

 4.2 3.6 3.6 3.0 4.5 5.9 10.2 18.4 33.0 51.3 55.5 58.9   Sales and office occupations

 2.8 2.5 1.8 1.7 3.1 4.6 9.6 22.1 47.6 64.6 69.0 70.6   Sales and related occupations

 2.0 1.8 1.4 1.5 2.5 3.9 8.1 19.0 38.7 55.8 63.0 65.0   Office and administrative support occupations

 3.5 3.1 2.1 2.0 3.6 5.1 10.8 24.7 55.0 72.0 74.0 75.3   Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

 3.3 2.7 2.6 3.0 3.2 7.8 21.3 49.6 73.5 74.1 77.9 78.4   Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

 5.1 4.0 4.5 4.9 8.1 12.5 34.6 56.3 69.8 65.5 (1)- 70.5   Construction and extraction occupations

 1.9 1.5 1.2 1.9 2.1 6.0 19.1 51.8 76.4 76.9 81.5 81.3   Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 4.7 3.7 3.8 4.0 3.3 8.8 20.2 44.7 70.9 73.0 76.6 76.8   Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

 9.2 8.5 8.3 7.3 11.6 17.0 32.3 51.5 62.2 61.2 64.8 63.2   Production occupations

 10.6 9.6 9.7 7.9 11.0 16.5 33.7 55.4 64.3 61.1 66.6 64.6   Transportation and material moving occupations

 7.8 7.5 6.9 6.7 12.2 17.4 30.8 47.7 60.2 61.3 62.9 61.9       Footnotes (1) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards. 

      NOTE: Estimates refer to work done for one's main job only and exclude travel related to work. These estimates are a snapshot showing the percent of individuals working at the one-minute interval that starts at the time indicated. Estimates were generated using the 2010 Census occupational classification system which was introduced in the 2011 American Time Use Survey. Estimates are not strictly comparable to those from earlier years. Data refer to persons 15 years and over. For technical information about the American Time Use Survey, see the ATUS User's Guide at www.bls.gov/tus/atususersguide.pdf. Source: American Time Use Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics 

            Table A-4B. Percent of employed persons working on their main job on days they worked by occupation and hour of day, 12 PM to 11 PM, average for the combined years 2011-15   Occupation 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM     Total, 15 years and over

 53.2 62.3 67.3 63.7 53.2 34.0 19.9 15.2 12.5 11.1 8.8 6.4   Management, professional, and related occupations

 54.9 63.1 71.4 68.1 58.1 35.8 17.6 12.3 10.5 9.4 7.1 4.8   Management, business, and financial operations occupations

 55.9 64.3 73.1 71.6 64.4 38.7 19.1 11.9 8.8 8.4 6.5 4.3   Management occupations

 55.0 62.8 71.8 69.3 62.8 39.8 20.8 13.9 10.1 9.8 7.4 4.9   Business and financial operations occupations

 57.9 67.8 76.4 77.0 68.3 35.8 15.0 7.0 5.6 5.1 4.4 2.9   Professional and related occupations

 54.1 62.2 70.1 65.5 53.5 33.8 16.5 12.5 11.8 10.1 7.6 5.2   Computer and mathematical occupations

 52.1 67.1 76.5 74.7 65.4 40.9 13.3 7.4 6.8 7.5 5.6 4.4   Architecture and engineering occupations

 47.4 75.2 78.3 79.8 64.6 33.0 15.0 7.1 7.1 4.8 4.6 3.4   Life, physical, and social science occupations

 55.0 61.4 75.3 67.2 60.6 31.6 12.7 10.5 13.0 10.5 5.9 4.1   Community and social services occupations

 54.1 56.4 67.5 62.3 57.3 33.6 22.3 18.2 17.1 11.1 8.6 5.3   Legal occupations

 57.4 60.7 74.8 75.6 69.1 42.6 19.1 6.2 8.5 6.3 4.4 2.1   Education, training, and library occupations

 56.1 65.0 68.6 58.9 36.6 23.9 11.0 8.7 10.4 9.4 5.7 3.1   Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

 49.7 49.5 60.5 56.8 54.6 39.1 20.7 18.9 17.0 15.5 13.7 6.4   Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 56.8 58.9 67.4 64.4 55.2 38.2 22.2 20.6 14.9 13.3 10.8 10.0   Service occupations

 51.0 54.5 53.4 50.2 43.1 35.3 28.9 25.5 21.8 18.9 15.5 11.1   Healthcare support occupations

 52.6 50.2 56.4 51.6 43.0 32.8 21.7 18.9 14.5 14.4 15.0 14.2   Protective service occupations

 45.8 50.2 54.3 52.3 44.6 37.1 28.5 25.1 23.1 22.4 25.0 24.0   Food preparation and serving related occupations

 57.5 56.1 47.7 42.2 41.6 45.9 43.8 42.4 39.2 32.1 21.5 10.4   Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 44.3 61.7 57.4 55.6 39.3 23.0 17.4 13.7 12.2 9.9 8.8 7.0   Personal care and service occupations

 52.3 49.5 53.9 52.5 49.0 35.6 27.1 20.8 13.1 12.2 9.2 6.8   Sales and office occupations

 56.4 62.4 67.7 66.8 57.4 35.5 20.1 14.9 11.2 9.6 7.0 4.5   Sales and related occupations

 57.1 62.3 66.6 66.1 59.4 44.2 28.8 22.0 15.9 13.9 8.1 4.6   Office and administrative support occupations

 55.9 62.5 68.6 67.3 55.6 28.1 12.9 9.0 7.3 5.9 6.1 4.5   Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

 46.7 71.7 76.0 66.9 48.8 26.3 13.7 10.0 7.5 6.4 4.9 4.2   Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

 36.9 57.7 65.6 47.9 (1)- 35.9 23.5 16.7 11.1 9.2 9.3 7.7   Construction and extraction occupations

 44.8 76.9 79.6 69.9 43.8 24.0 12.2 8.8 5.4 4.6 3.4 2.0   Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 52.1 69.1 74.4 68.6 53.8 26.4 12.7 9.6 9.2 7.9 5.5 6.0   Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

 48.8 62.5 63.8 58.0 44.1 28.3 20.4 16.2 13.7 13.1 12.3 11.3   Production occupations

 46.3 65.3 63.4 55.8 38.6 24.8 18.1 13.9 12.5 12.9 13.0 12.6   Transportation and material moving occupations

 51.4 59.8 64.2 60.2 49.4 31.8 22.7 18.5 14.8 13.4 11.6 10.0       Footnotes (1) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards. 

      NOTE: Estimates refer to work done for one's main job only and exclude travel related to work. These estimates are a snapshot showing the percent of individuals working at the one-minute interval that starts at the time indicated. Estimates were generated using the 2010 Census occupational classification system which was introduced in the 2011 American Time Use Survey. Estimates are not strictly comparable to those from earlier years. Data refer to persons 15 years and over. For technical information about the American Time Use Survey, see the ATUS User's Guide at www.bls.gov/tus/atususersguide.pdf. Source: American Time Use Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics 

       

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