Lifestyle > Leisure > Leisure Time > Leisure time across activities > Visiting or entertaining friends: 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 activities > Visiting or entertaining friends
- Canada ranked first for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2009.
- 16 of the bottom 17 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are High income OECD.
- 3 of the top 4 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are Former British Colonies'.
- 11 of the top 15 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are Christian.
- Australia ranked last for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends amongst English speaking countries in 2009.
- 9 of the bottom 11 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are European Union.
- Japan ranked second last for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends amongst Non-religious countries in 2009.
- Turkey ranked first for leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends amongst NATO countries in 2009.
- 9 of the bottom 11 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are European.
- 2 of the top 3 countries by leisure > leisure time > leisure time across activities > visiting or entertaining friends are Sparsely populated.
