The table illustrates the proportion of different age brackets who enrolled in numerous leisure activities in Canada.
Overall, a majority of under 30 year-olds participated in shopping and watching movies, while reading books is the most common activity among the 30-49 age brackets. In addition, there were minor gaps in the number of people who fell into four age cohorts listening to the radio as a leisure activity.
Regarding activities preferred by the younger groups, 32% of 10-19-year-old respondents and 27% of 20-29-year-old respondents took part in shopping, far higher than those figures for older groups. Watching movies followed a similar pattern, with two younger cohorts accounting for from 25% to 26%, surpassing two remaining groups by approximately 20 percentage points. Listening to music also presented a difference across these groups as percentages of 10-39-year-olds took it as a leisure activity ranged from 10% to 17%, exceeding a minor share of 4% of the oldest group. Moreover, playing video games was most popular among the 10-19 age bracket, while it only represented a negligible 2% for three other groups, respectively.
Turning to activities which recorded higher participation rates of older groups, reading books is the most common activity, making up 25% and 35% for people aged from 30 to 39 and those who aged 40-49, respectively. Knitting and gardening also recorded higher percentages of these age cohorts, ranging from 16% to 24%, yet the figures for younger groups were around 2-3%. Finally, the percentages of all ages listening to the radio were nearly distributed evenly, particularly 10%, 15%, 12%, and 8%, from the youngest to the oldest age bracket.