The British jobless citizens invested their time in the past year in different ways. It can be seen that being a male or female has a direct impact on the type of activity chosen to spend the time. Also, the day time has an effect on the prevalence of the activity even among the same-sex UK unemployed.
Among all the categories in the table, it is clear that the women’s percentages of doing all the activities in the morning exceeded the men’s, except in Job Hunting and Gardening, as Job Hunting was higher in men than in women with 6%, and Men did gardening 7 times more than women during the same time of the day.
While doing housework in the morning is the most preferred activity by almost half of the females, it came as the third preference for males after Job Hunting and Shopping, since slightly less than the fifth of the British non-working men favored doing home chores. Moreover, around a quarter of the UK jobless women did shopping while only a fifth of the males did so.
However, non-working British males and females favoured sitting around and staying in bed activities with the same percentages, 3% and 8% respectively.
In the afternoon, similar to the morning percentages, women also did house chores the most, and they went shopping more than men. However, in contrast to morning rates, females seemed slightly more active in Job Hunting than men. Other noticeable differences between the two genders are that men preferred to watch TV, sit around, stay in bed, walk, play sports, and drink more than women.