The given table compares how much time was spent, in minutes on a daily basis, by both genders on leisure activities, while the bar chart gives information about the average minutes per day by males and females on household activities in the UK in 2008.
Overall, while the amount of time spent by men on leisure activities was higher than that of women, the opposite was true for household activities. In addition, whereas TV, video, radio was the most common leisure activity for both genders, cooking and washing accounted for the most popular household activity during the period.
Looking at the details, TV, video, radio occupied the position as the most prevalent leisure activity for UK’s males and females, at 137 and 118 minutes per day, respectively. The amount of time spent by males in reading was 18 minutes, followed by 19 minutes by females. Meanwhile, sport was the least popular leisure activity for UK’s men and women, ranging from 15 to 11 minutes each day.
In terms of household activities, the most favorite leisure interest for women was cooking and washing, at roughly 80 minutes per day, nearly doubling that of shopping. UK’s females spent the least amount of time in repair, at just roughly 10 minutes each day. Similarly, the most common leisure activity for males was also cooking and washing, at approximately 30 minutes per day. UK’s men just spent roughly 9 minutes in clothes washing and ironing, which is the lowest figure.