Only one respondent said her child does not watch television. Twenty parents said their children watched up to five hours of television per day. The maximum amount of television viewing was five hours and the average was two hours per day. Table 27 shows the response distribution by occupation and sample comments.

Table 27. Children's television watching behavior
Television watching behavior (children) Number of
responses		 Occupation Comments
Children do not watch television 1 C n=1 My daughter doesn’t watch TV.
Children watch between 0.1 and 5 hours of television per day 20 0 n=5
A n=4
B n=5
C n=4
D n=2		 He watches one and a half hours a day.
My kids usually watch Family Channel two hours a day.
They watch approximately four hours a day.
They’ll watch three hours a day on the weekends.