海外文化:歐洲男女最愛用什麼方式打發時間

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 on 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.

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閒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。

歐盟統計局的分析師們採訪了來自10個國家的男性和女性工作者。

英國男人將49%的空閒時間貢獻給了電視，僅略低於匈牙利人的51%。

德國和挪威男人看電視的時間最少，僅僅略多於業餘時間的1/3。

統計學家們把全年的數字累加起來算出平均數，其中包括假期和週末。

他們把一天的活動分爲五大類，包括空閒時間、睡覺、吃飯和個人護理、旅行、家務瑣事和工作學習。

結果顯示，英國男人每天有4小時41分鐘的空閒時間，比英國女人多20分鐘。

但是，女人們花在家務瑣事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，相比之下男人只花費不到兩小時。

準備食物在家務事中佔了很大一部分，接下來最花時間的是打掃衛生和採購。

統計學家們進一步細分了空閒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、運動和鍛鍊上的時間略少。

普遍不受男女歡迎的是“文化”，只佔男人和女人閒暇時間的2%。

歐盟的統計學家們採訪了年齡從20到74歲的人羣，他們來自比利時、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。