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Hours and/or Minutes Per Day Spent Watching TV or Reading

	Hours/minutes spent watching TV		Hours/minutes spent reading
	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Total, 15 years and over	2:21	3:06	:20	:26
15 to 24 years	1:57	2:33	:07	:10
25 to 34 years	1:55	2:51	:09	:11
35 to 44 years	1:53	2:39	:12	:16
45 to 54 years	2:07	3:02	:17	:24
55 to 64 years	2:35	3:35	:30	:39
65 years and over	3:56	4:10	:50	1:07

2006 Annual Averages

Source: National Endowment for the Arts, To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, November 2007.

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