The data displays the prevalence of short sleep duration in currently employed U.S. adults from 2013 to 2014, by major occupation group. Short sleep duration is defined as less than 7 hours per day. According to the survey, 42.9% of persons working in the production industry were sleeping less than seven hours per day, compared to 36.5% of those working in office and administrative support. Short sleep duration has been known to cause a variety of negative health effects including, diabetes, anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease and work-related injury.
Production | 42.9 |
Healthcare support | 40.1 |
Healthcare practitioners and technical | 40 |
Food preparation and serving-related | 39.8 |
Protective services | 39.2 |
Transporation and material moving | 39.1 |
Personal care and services | 37.5 |
Installation, maintenance, and repair | 36.6 |
Office and administrative support | 36.5 |
Business and financial operations | 36.1 |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance | 36 |
Art, design, entertainment, sports, and media | 35.5 |
Management | 35.4 |
Legal | 34.5 |
Construction and extraction | 34.5 |
Sales and related | 34.4 |
Architecture and engineering | 34.3 |
Computer and mathematical | 33.8 |
Life, physical, and social science | 33.6 |
Community and social services | 32.2 |
Education, training and library | 31.3 |
Farming, fishing and forestry | 31.3 |