The bar chart illustrates data on the share of two genders in different leisure activities in England in 2006.
Overall,watching TV was the most popular free-time activity for males and females.Notably, the share of men was higher in all the categories,except spending time with family and shopping.
As for men, the proportion of watching TV demonstrated the highest category in all analysed figures accounting for around 78%,while spending time with family was a little lower than the latter figure.Moreover shopping and doing sport , the former category located at 27% considered a negligible share,whereas the latter one notably bigger than shopping.Turning to activities reading ranked highly and using internet was well placed accounting for nearly 73%. The share of playing computer games was the lowest figure in all analysed categories.
As regards women, the share of watching TV and spending time were two dominant activities, however television watching was slightly more popular.Meanwhile shopping was also a well-known activity across female group accounting for nearly 75%.The figure of spending time for doing exercise and reading was equal.Internetusaget was the smaller than all analysed categories, except playing computer recorded the lowest figure.