The bar chart illustrates the percentage of adolescents in Vietnam participating in six different types of leisure activities.
Overall, sports emerge as the dominant activity for boys, while the smallest share of boys choose art and craft (the lowest percentage among all teenagers). Girls’ preferences follow a different pattern, with sports being the least common choice, whereas the lowest percentage of girls opt for art and craft.
In terms of activities that are mostly chosen by girls, art and craft is the most preferred, with 25% of girls choosing it; conversely, the percentage of boys taking part in it accounted for approximately 7%. The percentage of girls and boys engaging in books stands at roughly 17% and 10% respectively. There was a moderate gap between boys and girls choosing DVDs in favour of girls (around 17%).
As for free-time activities that are popular mostly among boys, sports have the largest share, at around 28%, and almost half of that shows the percentage of girls going for sports. The figures for teenagers going to the park were almost identical to sports, with 25% for boys and 14% for girls. The same percentages of boys and girls preferred computer games, 15% for each.
