NILF

English Pronunciation en /nɪlf/ Noun en not in labor force. en Nicholas Eberstadt, Evan Abramsky What Do Prime-age ‘NILF’ Men Do All Day? w:American Enterprise Institute https://www.aei.org/articles/what-do-prime-age-nilf-men-do-all-day/ 08-02-2021 Though imposing in absolute terms, prime-age NILF men account for less than 3% of pre-COVID America’s adult population, and thus for a small number of observations in any single ATUS survey. For this reason, we pooled the five most recent years of the survey—2015 through 2019—to glean statistically meaningful results from the differences in time use between the prime-age male NILFs and their working counterparts. https://web.archive.org/web/20260221170650/https://www.aei.org/articles/what-do-prime-age-nilf-men-do-all-day/ 21 February 2026