The given table and bar chart illustrate the differences in statistics of household and leisure activities through each minute of the day. The survey was conducted in 2008 with the consists of two genders, females and males, living in the UK.
The initial impression from the table is that residents spent more time on TV, video and radio than other leisure activities. Another chart also presented a higher number of women doing household activities than their counterparts.
Entertainment activities were much more favored by UK men in 2008. The most popular activity for these men was watching TV, radio and video, which accounted for nearly 140 minutes per day. On the other hand, women only spent almost 2 hours in this sector. The same trend could be observed in the data on sport, with the number of male adults fond of this activity outweighing that of females. By contrast, the minutes of women liking reading were around 20 minutes, higher than that of their counterparts 1 minute.
Despite not being interested in household chores, men were much more active in reparation interests. They completely dominated the data when it came to repair activities, with almost 20 minutes of surveyed men loving this chore; Whilst women’s interest was much less than this (around 10 minutes a day). The data of cooking and washing experienced a significant difference when the number of minutes that women spent were nearly fourth as many as men did. Similarly, both shopping and clothes washing with ironing were much more preferred by UK women at around 30 and 35 minutes respectively. The disparity between two genders in shopping was not that significant.