Percentage of 9th- through 12th-grade students who played video or computer games or used a computer for something other than schoolwork, by sex and hours per day: 2009

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Table 34.	Percentage of 9th- through 12th-grade students who played video or computer games or used a computer for something other than schoolwork, by sex and hours per day: 2009

Hours per day	Total	Male	Female
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
Does not play video or computer games¹	17.0	12.8	21.6
Less than 1 hour per day	23.9	23.3	24.5
1 hour per day	17.6	18.1	17.0
2 hours per day	16.7	17.5	15.7
3 hours per day	10.9	11.7	10.0
4 hours per day	5.6	6.4	4.8
5 or more hours per day	8.4	10.2	6.5

¹ Includes "does not use a computer for something other than school work."
NOTE: Includes using the Internet other than for schoolwork.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance—United States, 2009.