Norway Yearbook - 1996

General subjects
1 5 Time spent on various activities. Average for all days. Hours and minutes
Both sexes
1971-72 1980-81 1990-91 1971-72 1980-81 1990-91 1971-72 1980-81 1990-91
Total 240O 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00
Males
Females
1. Income-producing work, journey
toworketc., total 3.38 3.29 3.37 5.29 4.40 4.30 1.56 2.23 2.49
1.1 Income-producing work . 3.20 3.12 3.17 5.02 4.17 4.06 1.47 2.10 2.33
1.2 Journey to work 0.18 0.18 0.20 0.26 0.23 0.24 0.10 0.13 0.16
2. Household work and family care,
total 4.09 3.39 3.31 2.13 2.26 2.36 5.55 4.46 4.22
2.1 Housework 2.30 1.57 1.34 0.38 0.47 0.46 4.14 3.01 2.18
2.2 Maintenance 0.27 0.25 0.25 0.41 0.37 0.36 0.13 0.15 0.16
2.3 Family care 0.30 037 0.45 0.17 0.25 0.30 0.42 0.46 0.59
2.4 Purchase of goods and
services 0.19 0.22 0.23 0.15 0.18 0.19 0.23 0.26 0.26
2.5 Other household work and
familycare 0.09 0.08 0.11 0.10 0.10 0.13 0.09 0.07 0.09
2.6 Travels in connection with
household work and family
care 0.13 0.10 0.13 0.11 0.09 0.13 0.14 0.11 0.14
3. Education, total 0.20 0.31 0.31 0.23 0.30 0.29 0.17 0.31 0.33
4. Personal needs, total 10.28 10.15 10.04 10.20 10.11 9.58 10.35 10.19 10.10
Personal care 9.07 8.59 8.51 9.00 8.54 8.43 9.14 9.03 8.57
Meals 1.21 1.16 1.13 1.20 1.17 1.15 1.21 1.16 1.12
5. Leisure time, total 5.10 6.02 6.11 5.20 6.08 6.21 5.01 5.56 6.01
Sports and out-door life 0.28 0.30 0.31 0.32 0.35 0.37 0.25 0.26 0.25
Entertainment 0.07 0.10 0.13 0.09 0.12 0.15 0.05 0.07 0.11
Television viewing 1.01 1.16 1.24 1.10 1.24 1.36 0.53 1.09 1.14
Socializing 1.48 2.02 2.03 1.36 1.52 1.52 1.58 2.11 2.12
Reading 0.42 0.45 0.39 0.46 0.48 0.40 0.38 0.43 0.38
Other leisure time 0.41 0.53 0.49 0.42 0.48 0.49 0.41 0.57 0.50
Travels in connection with leisure
time activities 0.23 0.26 0.32 0.25 0.28 0.33 0.21 0.24 0.31
Other, unknown 0.15 0.05 0.06 0.15 0.05 0.06 0.15 0.04 0.06
Numberof observations 6985 6600 6021 3349 3169 2874 3636 3431 3147
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