Saturday, 8 December 2012

What do we do with our time?

My survey revealed that in Ukraine today as well as in the UK, people spend a third of their day sleeping and eating. It may seem much but it is only 8 hours - the time which a person ought to spend just sleeping. Working or studying, sleeping and surfing the Internet take up much more than half of the day.
On average the Ukrainians spend about 17 hours per week watching TV. However they are using more and more Internet – approximately 20 hours. Not surprisingly, older people use the Internet and watch TV less than the youth do. For example, only one out of four people aged 60 and over says he can use a computer while all the examined teenagers say they use computer every day.
During the week, 72% of adults are up by 7 am. 68% of students stay at university or at school at least till 3 pm and then come back home, do their leisure time activities and their homework. Adults spend much more time working that the youth studying. Two thirds of the examined people come back home later than 6 pm.
People generally eat between 6.30 and 7 am, at 1 pm and between 6 and 9 pm. By midnight, 90% of adults are asleep, while a quarter of teenagers prefer surfing the Internet or hanging out with their friends at that time.
At the weekend people get up later (65% after 9 am) and go to bed later. Small difference was revealed between adults and children. Adults spend twice as much time alone as children do.




2 comments:

  1. It's a great pity nowadays people spend much time on trivial things, such as watching TV or doing nothing. I guess, that's the reason why people nowadays are short of time. Anyway, I like Katya's research. It seems quite realistic to me. Moreover, I liked the pie chart a lot, seems soothing )

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  2. You didn't examine people, did you? You interviewed them, so the are "interviewed teenagers". By the way, how many people have been interviewed?

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