{"id": 1305997, "name": "Time spent on leisure - Sex: men", "unit": "minutes per day", "createdAt": "2026-09-04T18:34:55.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-09-04T18:34:55.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2010-2024", "datasetId": 8149, "shortUnit": "min", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "leisure__sex_men", "catalogPath": "grapher/oecd/2026-08-14/time_use/time_use#leisure__sex_men", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2022}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2015}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 165, "name": "Croatia", "code": "HRV"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 210, "name": "Luxembourg", "code": "LUX"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Average time spent on leisure activities, such as sports, events, seeing friends, TV or radio, and other leisure. Minutes are a daily average over the whole week, including both weekdays and weekends.", "descriptionProcessing": "Countries run their time-use surveys in different years, and some run them across two: we date each\ncountry by the year its fieldwork ended, so a survey labeled 2009/10 is shown as 2010.\n\nWe include each country whose most recent survey is from 2010 onwards, which is 26 of the 35 countries the OECD publishes. The source runs one survey per country and does not repeat it, so this leaves out countries rather than years, and it avoids showing a survey from the 1990s beside one from 2024.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "OECD Time Use Database", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-08-14", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "minutes per day", "shortUnit": "min", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"attributionShort": "OECD", "topicTagsLinks": ["Time Use"]}, "descriptionKey": "- Time-use surveys are run differently in different countries. The OECD notes that differences in how the surveys are designed, in how many diary days each one samples, and in how each one groups activities all limit how comparable the results are between countries.\n- The OECD flags Mexico's estimates as not fully comparable. Mexico measures time use with a questionnaire that asks how long people spent on a set list of activities over the previous week, rather than with a diary of a single day, and recall over a week tends to raise the time reported for frequent activities such as housework and care.\n- For eleven countries the estimate for people aged 15 to 64 is not measured directly but averaged across age brackets, weighted by how much of the population each bracket holds. Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Poland use four brackets weighted with Eurostat population data; Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Norway use five-year brackets weighted with figures from their own national statistical institutes.\n- Each country's estimates come from a single survey, and the survey years differ widely \u2014 from 2010 to 2024. They are the most recent surveys in the OECD's database, which can be older than a country's own latest survey: South Korea's estimates here are from 2014, while Statistics Korea has since published 2019 and 2024 rounds.", "origins": [{"id": 21230, "title": "OECD Time Use Database", "description": "The OECD Time Use Database provides information on how women and men spend their time. Data are currently available for 30 OECD countries. Differences in survey features, the number of diary days sampled, and the categorization of activities may all affect the cross-country comparability of results. To improve the comparison of time use across countries, the samples are restricted to populations aged 15-64 and activities are aggregated into five main categories: (1) Unpaid work; (2) Paid work or study; (3) Personal care; (4) Leisure; and (5) Other time use. Bulgaria, Croatia, China, India, and South Africa are also included.", "producer": "OECD", "citationFull": "OECD (2026). OECD Time Use Database. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/time-use-database.html", "attributionShort": "OECD", "urlMain": "https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/time-use-database.html", "urlDownload": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/time-use-database/OECD-time-use-database-updates.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2026-08-14", "datePublished": "2026-04-30", "license": {"url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html", "name": "OECD Terms and Conditions"}}]}