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What percentage of American adults avoided using appliances like the oven or dryer on hot days to keep the heat down?
24% of American adults avoided using appliances like the oven or dryer on hot days to keep the heat down - about 24 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Household Pulse Survey
- What it measured
- HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item HOT_NOAPPLIANCE (“On hot days have you or members of your household done any of the following to stay cool or reduce home cooling costs? Select all that apply”), counting responses 1=Selected, as a share of adults who answered (15.3% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table housing4. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,401.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2026
- 95% confidence interval
- 21.84% to 26.16% (derived from the published standard error)
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