Lifestyle > Leisure > Leisure Time > Leisure time across demographic groups > Ages 15-24: Countries Compared
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The measures of the quantity of leisure time presented here are based on information drawn from national and International Time Use Surveys. Participants to these surveys fill diaries over a number of days. Information from these diaries is then aggregated into a standard activity classification, with the sum of minutes spent in various (primary) activities summing to 24 hours per day. Time-use data from national surveys have been re-coded by the OECD to a common classification based on the five main categories of “paid work and study”; “home production”; “personal care”; “leisure activities”; and “other activities not classified elsewhere”. Adjustments have been made to account for cross-country differences in the age of people covered by the various national surveys. Finally, to account for differences across countries in time devoted to personal care, this has been set equal to the amount devoted to this activity in the country where this is lowest (Norway); the excess of daily time that residents of some countries devote to personal care has been added to leisure.
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Interesting observations about Lifestyle > Leisure > Leisure Time > Leisure time across demographic groups > Ages 15-24
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are Christian.
- Italy ranked first for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2009.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are European.
- 16 of the bottom 17 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are High income OECD.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are European Union.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are Eurozone.
- Australia ranked last for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 amongst English speaking countries in 2009.
- 3 of the top 4 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are Sparsely populated.
- 5 of the top 7 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 are Cold countries'.
- Japan ranked last for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > ages 15-24 amongst Non-religious countries in 2009.
