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silverbax88
This is really slick. And I'm stunned that 1 out of 3 Americans is sleeping until 8 am. I never would have expected that.
kjdal2001
Stunned that its that high, or that its that low?
silverbax88
Well, I'm just going off of my gut, not real data. But I would have thought 33% of Americans still being in bed at 8am would be high.

Of course, the service industry has more flexible schedules - but over the course of the day, by 11pm most people are in bed and by 2 am it looks like just about everybody is asleep. I don't really have deeper insight other than I expected it to be either most people would be up by 7am or more distributed over the course of the day.

At noon, only 3% of Americans are asleep.

kjdal2001
Yeah, I also felt that it was high, but the more I think about it the more reasonable it seems. I might have missed it, but I didn't see anything about what day of the week the data was gathered from. If its a mix of both weekend and weekdays, then the wakeup times could end up being an average that isn't really representative of any particular day. I also think that the location can play a large part. I typically get out of bed a bit after 7 during the week, but I am in the Central time zone, so someone with a similar job on the east coast might get up an hour later.
howeyc
Ya, but once you realize the labor participation rate is under 70% it makes sense that a 3rd of America may sleep that late.

Not everyone that participates has a 9-5 job.

silverbax88
I thought that, too, but by noon only 3% of Americans are asleep. By 11 pm most of Americans are asleep. So almost everyone is on roughly the same schedule.

No deep analysis from me, just interesting data.

MIKarlsen
I really thought Americans were more into sports. It seems weird that not more people are into actually doing sports considering your major sports industry
empiricus
Sports are 2-3% for a long portion of the day. This is actually quite a lot; consider that a person will exercise for < 1h, and maybe not every day.
silverbax88
Do you mean sports fans or actively playing sports? Because there is a big difference.
esalman
"Leisure" is very consistent throughout the day and even at night.
icebraining
There are a few which actually wake up at 3 and 4 am for leisure; I wonder what they're doing.
Avshalom
I can't speak for all of them but I'm up at 3-4 ever day because work starts at 4 and I have two non consecutive days off so on my days off if I sleep in I can't get back to sleep early enough that night. Which means that yeah on my days off I'm waking up and leisuring by 4 am.
dpdawson
I'd be interested in seeing this with the dot color representing income bracket.
nekgrim
Love that "Wake up" is 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 precisely. So regular, so predictible.

We really need to learn to listen to our natural sleep cycles.

icebraining
Well, it's a survey; the vast majority of the time I wake up 'unaided' between 06:40-07:20 (I have my alarm clock set to 7:30 as a fail-safe), but if you'd ask me what time I wake up, I'd say "around 7am", which then would be recorded as a precise value.
silverbax88
I was more impacted by the fact that every hour, on the hour, there's a pretty significant shift. Of course, 5pm is the big explosion, but pretty much we live our lives based on the clock.