The bar chart illustrates the average time people of different employment status and sex spent on leisure activities per week in a two-year period (from 1998 to 1999). Units are measured in hours.
Overall, both men and women occupied by some job had remarkably less leisure time a week than those who were unemployed or retired. Either had housewives in the covered period. Additionally, in the every group of people the males, in average, had more free time in the week than the females.
Firstly, figures for the unemployed and retired follow a similar pattern for both men and women. The males of the two mentioned categories spent slightly more than 80 hours per week on leisure time activities, while the females spent roughly 75 hours. The bars for the employed at a full-time job have the same difference in the average amount hours spent by men and women, with just under 50 and about 35 hours respectively.
Women occupied by a part-time job had approximately 40 hours to themselves per week (the chart provides no information for this number assotiated with men). The housewives spent not much more time for leisure, at about 50 hours.