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What percentage of American adults get together with people they feel close to five or more times a week, not counting anyone they live with?
8.9% of American adults get together with people they feel close to five or more times a week, not counting anyone they live with - about 9 in every 100, or 1 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.
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8.9
Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Household Pulse Survey
- What it measured
- HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item SOC_TOGETHER (“In a typical week, and not including people you live with, how many times do you get together with people that you care about and feel close to?”), counting responses 4=5 or more times a week, as a share of adults who answered (4.1% 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 health3c. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 12,217.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2026
- 95% confidence interval
- 7.85% to 9.95% (derived from the published standard error)
Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data
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