Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 2.5:
Time budgets for males,
females and the total population of
adults aged 16 and over in 2000
Source:
based on ONS (2002) data
The results of a diary analysis of young people aged between 8 and 15 found that
young people
• spend more time than adults sleeping, an average of 10 hours a day (compared to 8
hours and 30 minutes for all adults)
• spent half an hour a day on sport.
The value of such research is in the identification of factors beyond simplistic analogies
of demand determined by biological, social and economic factors, where the relationship
between different time-consuming activities are examined in a holistic manner. Indeed, at
a EU level, the July 2003 Time Use at Different Stages of Life survey of time use in
thirteen different EU countries provides some comparable transnational data
(http://www.europa.eu.int/).
