The bar chart illustrates how many teenage boys and girls in Vietnam engaged in different pastimes in 2010.
Overall, while boys generally loved to spend their free time going to the park or playing sports, girls tended to join indoor activities. In addition, the similarities can be seen in the figures for both genders playing computer games and watching DVDs.
About 27% of the boys liked playing sports in their spare time, compared to only 12% of their female counterparts. Similarly, the percentage of teenage boys going to the park was far higher than that of girls, with respective figures being 25% and around 12%. Dramatic differences were also seen in the proportion of girls and boys doing art and craft, which was just over 5% and 25% in that order. As for reading books, around 18% of girls enjoyed this activity, whereas only 10% of boys did so.
The share of teenagers playing video games was the same for both sexes, with 15% of the total boys and girls in the survey having this leisure pursuit. While 15% of boys enjoyed watching DVDs, the figure for girls was slightly higher, about 18%.