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What percentage of Americans made or took a phone call on an average day?
13.8% of Americans made or took a phone call on an average day — about 14 in every 100, or 1 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Time Use Survey for 2025.
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13.8
Where this number comes from
- Survey
- American Time Use Survey
- What it measured
- Percent of the population engaged in “Telephone calls (to or from)” as a primary activity on an average day. The interval is derived here as the published estimate plus or minus 1.96 standard errors.
- Population
- Americans aged 15 and over
- Year
- 2025
- 95% confidence interval
- 12.62% to 14.98% (derived from the published standard error)
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