Lifestyle > Leisure > Leisure Time > Leisure time across demographic groups > Total: 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 > Total
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are Christian.
- Germany ranked first for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2009.
- All of the top 3 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are Cold countries'.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are European.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are Heavily indebted.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are European Union.
- 16 of the bottom 18 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are High income OECD.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are Eurozone.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are Western European.
- All of the top 2 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across demographic groups > total are NATO.
