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British men are couch potatoes who spend nearly half their free-time watching TV, an EU survey has
revealed.
They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and
less childcare - but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests.
Analysts from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, interviewed
working men and women in 10 countries.
Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a
narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%.
German and Norwegian men watched the least TV - just over one third of
their spare time.
The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year
including holidays and weekends.
They broke down the "average day" into five categories - free-time,
sleep, meals and personal care, travel, domestic chores and work/study.
It shows that British men have four hours and 41 minutes free time each
day - 20 minutes more than women.
But women spend nearly double the amount of time on domestic chores
than men.
Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman's day is taken up with
domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men.
Food preparation makes up the bulk of the chores, with cleaning and
shopping the next most time-consuming.
They further broke down the free-time and domestic categories to reveal
that men spend 137 minutes each day in front of the TV, compared to
women's 114 minutes.
Women spend slightly more time socialising, resting and reading than
men, but slightly less time on hobbies, sport and exercise.
Universally unpopular with both sexes is culture - accounting for just
2% of both men and women's leisure time.
EU statisticians interviewed people between the ages of 20 and 74 years
old in Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Finland,
Sweden, the UK and Norway.
(Agencies) |
歐盟的一份調查顯示：英國男人都是“電視迷”，他們有將近一半的空閑時間是在電視機前度過的。
調查結果表明，他們看電視的時間比女人們還長，而他們在做家務、參加慈善事業和看護孩子方面做的較少，卻將更多的時間花在購物上。
歐盟統計局（Eurostat）的分析師們采訪了來自10個國家的男性和女性工作者。
英國男人將49%的空閑時間貢獻給了電視，僅略低于匈牙利人的51%。
德國和挪威男人看電視的時間最少，僅僅略多于業余時間的1/3。
統計學家們把全年的數字累加起來算出平均數，其中包括假期和周末。
他們把一天的活動分為五大類，其中包括空閑時間、睡眠、吃飯和個人護理、旅行、家務活和工作或學習。
統計結果顯示，英國男人每天有4小時41分鐘的空閑時間，比（英國）女人多20分鐘。
但是，女人們花在家務活上的時間幾乎是男人的兩倍。
女人一天中差不多有三個半小時用來做家務，相比之下男人只花不到兩小時。
準備食物在家務活中占了很大一部分，接下來最花時間的是打掃衛生和采購。
統計學家們進一步細分了空閑時間和家庭生活的種類，發現男人每天要在電視機前花費137 分鐘，而婦女是114 分鐘。
女人會比男人稍微多花一點時間去社交、休息和閱讀，但她們花在個人愛好、運動和鍛煉上的時間略少。.
普遍不受男女歡迎的是“文化”，只占男人和女人閑暇時間的2%。
歐盟的統計學家們采訪了年齡從20到74歲的人群，他們來自不同的國家，其中包括比利時、德國、愛沙尼亞、法國、匈牙利、斯洛文尼亞、芬蘭、瑞士、英國和挪威。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2004-08-09 14:20
