How many weeks of the year are the Duggars being filmed?

[Seven Severn]

Is the TLC crew with them for 20 weeks scattered throughout the year? 30? More? Fewer? This may be common knowledge, but I haven't a clue.

[Patsy]

I think some posters here would have a better idea than me, but I get the impression, reading about it here, that there are quite a few episodes aired only weeks after the events involved. So probably a lot of hours, but not a lot of DAYS (a week, two, tops?) goes into each episode - there are 11 episodes Sep-Dec 2008 season 1, 21 episodes Jan-June s2, which kind of lines up to that one-two weeks per episode idea... but from then on, the show's been airing pretty much constantly, with like... two month breaks? Occasionally. Seems to me they'd have cameras around pretty much all the time, even if they don't use filming from every day.