A study by SmartAsset examined the 50 states by the number of minutes per day residents spend on ‘friendly activities,’ including socializing, volunteering, and helping people outside their own homes. The results offer a behavioral snapshot of where residents spend the most time engaging with others in their communities.
Methodology
The study used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey, extracted from IPUMS, over the most recent available four-year period. For each state, SmartAsset calculated the average daily minutes residents spent socializing, volunteering, and helping people outside the household. Those three measures were then equally weighted and summed to produce a total time value used to rank the states.
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