{"id":6306,"date":"2022-01-21T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2022-01-21T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T04:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-aged-2-17-years-with-2-hours-of-screen-time-per-weekday-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/01\/21\/6306\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children\u00a0Aged 2\u201317 Years With &gt;2 Hours of Screen Time Per Weekday,\u00a0by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey,\u00a0United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7103a6-F.gif?_=18624\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"247\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, 65.7% of boys and 64.6% of girls aged 2\u201317 years spent &gt;2 hours of screen time per weekday, in addition to screen time spent for schoolwork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among both boys and girls, the percentage of children who spent &gt;2 hours of screen time increased with increasing age group from 47.5% for those aged 2\u20135 years to 80.2% for those aged 12\u201317 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7103a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7103a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 65.7% of boys and 64.6% of girls aged 2\u201317 years spent &gt;2 hours of screen time per weekday, in addition to screen time spent for schoolwork. Among both boys and girls, the percentage of children who spent &gt;2 hours of screen time increased with increasing age group from 47.5% for those aged 2\u20135 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}