{"id":6954,"date":"2020-04-24T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:30:06","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-currently-employed-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-reported-an-average-of-6-hours-of-sleep-or-less-per-24-hour-period-by-employment-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/04\/24\/6954\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Currently Employed Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Reported an Average of 6 Hours of Sleep or less per 24-Hour Period, by Employment Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6916a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6916a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of employed adults who reported an average of 6 hours or less of sleep per 24-hour period increased from 28.4% during 2008\u20132009 to 32.6% during 2017\u20132018.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, increases were noted among private sector employees (29.5% to 33.3%), government employees (28.8% to 32.8%), and the self-employed (24.3% to 31.4%).<\/p>\n<p>A lower percentage of the self- employed reported 6 hours or less of sleep compared with private sector and government employees during 2008\u20132009.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller differences by employment categories noted during 2017\u20132018 were not statistically significant.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2008\u20132009 and 2017\u20132018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6916a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6916a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"order-4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of employed adults who reported an average of 6 hours or less of sleep per 24-hour period increased from 28.4% during 2008\u20132009 to 32.6% during 2017\u20132018. During this period, increases were noted among private sector employees (29.5% to 33.3%), government employees (28.8% to 32.8%), and the self-employed (24.3% to 31.4%). A lower percentage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752,11906],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954"}],"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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}