What Do People Do All Day?

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The chart here relies on the same time-use data described above, but shows total leisure time for men and women separately. Time for men is shown on the horizontal axis, while time for women appears on the vertical axis. The dotted diagonal line denotes ‘gender parity’, so the further away a country is from the diagonal line, the larger the difference between men and women. As we can see, in all countries the average leisure time for men is higher than for women – all bubbles are below the diagonal line – but in some countries the gaps are much larger. In Norway the difference is very small, while in Portugal men report almost 50% more leisure time than women. Our World in Data presents the data and research to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

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While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally I have always found What Do People Do All Day? as much too frenetic and too in-your-face busy for my tastes (and most definitely with TOO MUCH of an emphasis on physical work, and especially on vehicles and machinery). In other words, I usually do tend to always consider Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever rather more balanced with regard to presenting an acceptable combination of home and public life (and thus also not as overtly and joyously extroverted as What Do People Do All Day?) and yes indeed, that What Do People Do All Day? is in my opinion simply and totally just a bit too constantly into getting up and going, too celebratory and supportive of the so-called modern rat race. In the UK, researchers from the Centre for Time Use Research linked time-use diaries with the respondents’ assessments of enjoyment, on a scale from 1 to 7, to better understand the connection between time use and well-being. The chart here, which we’ve adapted from the book ‘What We Really Do All Day’ , by professors Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan, shows the results. The estimates correspond to average reported levels of enjoyment for each activity, with confidence intervals. 5 Knyga moraliai pasenusi 2. Pvz, rašoma, "Be medžių niekaip neišsiverstume". Bet visas tas "neišsiverstume" remiasi į miškų kirtimą ir medienos naudojimą baldams, popieriui ir pan. Taip, labai smagu žinoti, iš kur atsiranda daiktai, bet kaip trūksta informacijos, kad medžiai mums duoda deguonį! Kad miškas yra ekosistema, kad miškas yra namai daugybei gyvūnų! Tas pats ir su vandeniu, parodoma, kaip gaunamas geriamasis vanduo - puiki informacija! - bet ničnieko apie tai, kad vandenynas yra ekosistema, kad vandenyną reikia labai saugoti...This is not surprising – most of us try to split our days into “work, rest and fun”, and so there are some predictable patterns. We spend the most time working and sleeping; and paid work, housework, leisure, eating and sleeping take together 80-90% of the 1440 minutes that we all have available every day. But the researchers found a lot of commonalities, too. Across the world, we all tend to spend about the same amount of time eating, preparing food, transporting ourselves, and grooming and washing. The Human Chronome Project Soon I began drawing the characters (pigs were my favorite), first copying exactly and then getting the feel for how a pig was "constructed" and drawing the characters in new poses, outfits, etc. One of the first "lightbulbs" to go off for me about how much I loved to draw and paint. But beyond this, and more importantly, this confirms that time-use is informative about well-being.

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Going beyond national averages reveals important within-country inequalities. The gender gap in leisure time, for example, is a key dimension along which large inequalities exist. All visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited. Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited. All the software and code that we write is open source and made available via GitHub under the permissive MIT license. All other material, including data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data, is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. Everyone is busy in Busytown - from train drivers to doctors, from mothers to sailors, in police stations and on fire engines. Follow lots of busy people working through their busy days. Because these estimates include people who are not employed they are much lower than the estimates of working hours per worker we present elsewhere. The estimates also differ because of differences in the sources: time-use surveys compared to labor force surveys and national accounts data.But if we look closely, we also see some important differences. Consider sleeping, for example. From this sample of countries, South Koreans sleep the least – averaging 7 hours and 51 minutes of sleep every day. In India and the US, at the other end of the spectrum, people sleep an hour more on average. The underlying data comes from time-use diaries where respondents are asked to record the sequence of what they do over a specific day, and how much they enjoy each ‘episode’ (i.e. what they do) on a scale from 1 to 7. All episodes reported are then coded and grouped into similar activities. To arrive at the mean enjoyment scores, the authors multiply the duration of each episode where the activity category concerned is the primary activity recorded, by the enjoyment level to arrive at the total enjoyment score for that episode. Then they sum these total enjoyment scores for each category of activity across the day, and finally divide these daily enjoyment total scores for each activity by the amount of time devoted to the activity. In this way, they arrive at an appropriately weighted mean enjoyment level for each activity across all those who engage in it. For more details see Gershuny, J., & Sullivan, O. (2019). What We Really Do All Day: Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research. Penguin UK. Wood and how we use it and building a new road are interestingly covered, a voyage on a ship is full of activity and finally where bread comes from reminds me of my Dad as a master baker when I used to go and play in the bakehouse and get covered in flour! Just like my Dad's bread, it did taste good! Every single one of us has the same “time budget”: 24 hours per day and 365 days per year. But of course not all of us can choose to spend time on the activities that we enjoy most. Differences in our freedom to allocate time to the things we enjoy is the main reason why time-use data is important for studying living conditions.

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There is a fair amount of silliness as is typical in Busytown, and of course, anthropomorphic animals, but it seems that most of the professions presented here are fairly accurate. It gives kids a good idea of some of the work that many jobs entail. Sleep, work, eat, leisure – at a high level most of us spend time on similar activities. But just how similar are the daily activities of people across the world? This is something worth considering, not just to serve our curiosity but because differences in the way we spend time give us meaningful perspectives on living conditions, economic opportunities and general well-being. Everyone is busy in Busytown – from train drivers to doctors, from mothers to sailors, in police stations and on fire engines. Follow lots of busy people working through their busy days!

Understanding how the global human system functions is crucial if we are to sustainably navigate planetary boundaries, adapt to rapid technological change such as artificial intelligence, and achieve global development goals,” the researchers wrote. You find a very clear and complete explanation of this in Ramey, V. A., & Francis, N. (2009). A century of work and leisure. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(2), 189-224. Atgrubnagiškas lietuviškas leidimas. Beveik kiekviename puslapyje po maketavimo, vertimo ar logikos klaidą. Pvz, Mama Kriuksė sako "Gana valgyt!", o sūnus iš karto klausia, "ar galima nesuvalgyti šios paskutinės sėklelės?". Vardai nesulietuvinti, tad yra tokių perlų, kaip "Seli padėjo Ebi apsirengti marškinėlius". Jau gana, kad feisbukuose žmonės vieni į kitus vardininkais kreipiasi, kam tą dar daryti ir knygose? Ir dar vaikų? If you want to dig deeper you can explore gender differences across all other activities directly from our source, via the OECD Data Portal. And you can read more about within-country inequalities in time use along other dimensions, such as income and education, in this Brookings Paper, where the authors focus on the ‘middle class time squeeze’ in the US. See: Sawhill, I. V., & Guyot, K. (2020). The Middle Class Time Squeeze. Economic Studies at Brookings. Brookings Institution. Differences in demographics, education and economic prosperity all contribute to these inequalities in work and time use. But what’s clear in the chart here is that there are also some differences in time use that are not well explained by economic or demographic differences. In the UK, for example, people spend more time working than in France; but in both countries people report spending a similar amount of time on leisure activities.