老外退休後每天都做什麼？

When you retire, you gain eight or more extra hours of leisure time each day. Retirees are generally using that extra time to linger a little longer over meals, sleep, do household chores, and watch a lot more TV, according to recently released American Time Use Survey data for 2011. Here's how people age 65 and older are filling their days:

Relax.

As you might expect, retirees have a lot more time for leisure activities than people who are still working. People age 65 and older spend an average of just over seven hours per day on leisure and sports, compared to just over five hours among the overall population.

"These are people who have fulfilled the dream of having the complete choice of anything they want to do, and the things they choose are surprising," says John Robinson, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland and coauthor of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time.

"The three things that retirees spend the most extra time on are reading, resting, and TV."

Retirees spend twice as much time relaxing and thinking (0.6 hours) and reading (0.7 hours) compared to the overall population (0.3 hours for both activities). And senior citizens are equally as likely as younger people to surf the Internet for leisure and spend time socializing with friends, and only slightly less likely to exercise.

Watch TV.

Americans watch an average of two hours and 45 minutes of TV per day. Retirees watch even more, averaging 4.2 hours of TV-viewing each day. Men age 65 and older watch an hour more of TV daily (4.73 hours) than older women (3.74 hours). And people age 75 and older watch more TV than any other age group.

Sleep.

The only thing seniors spend more time on than leisure activities is sleep. Retirees spend nine hours per day sleeping, compared with 8.7 hours daily among the population as a whole.

Household chores.

Retirees took an average of 2.4 hours per day to tackle household chores, compared to 1.8 hours among all Americans. People age 65 and older spend slightly longer on housework, food preparation and cleanup, and lawn and garden care.

Eat and drink.

The typical American spends about an hour and 15 minutes each day eating and drinking. Retirees linger slightly longer over meals, for an average of about an hour and a half each day.

Work.

Not all people age 65 and older are retired. The typical senior citizen spends nearly an hour each day working. But seniors are less likely to work than the population as a whole, which spends just over 3.5 hours per day working. "Older cohorts of individuals are less likely to be employed, so they spend less time working," says Rachel Krantz-Kent, program manager of the American Time Use Survey. Retirees also seldom spend any of their time persuing formal education, compared to an average of about a half hour per day among the entire adult population.

Shop.

Retirees have plenty of time to research and comparison-shop for their purchases, and they spend 0.87 hours per day doing so. Americans overall spend 0.72 hours acquiring goods and services.

Volunteer.

Retirees spend very little time caring for household members (0.07 of an hour) and helping people outside their household (0.2 hours). In contrast, Americans overall spend half an hour per day caring for family members, primarily children, and about the same amount of time as retirees caring for people outside their household. However, retirees spend slightly longer than most Americans volunteering and pursing religious and spiritual activities, doing each for an average of almost 15 minutes each day.當你步入退休生活後，就會至少擁有8個小時的額外休閒時間。根據近來發布的美國居民時間支配調查數據顯示，一般而言，退休黨們會將這些額外的時間用於多玩一會兒、吃飯、睡覺、做家務以及看更多的電視。以下便是在65歲及其以上年齡段的老年人們打發時光的做法：

休閒放鬆。

如你所想，退休人員比工作人士擁有更多用於休閒活動的空閒時間。同所有居民每天5小時的運動時間相比，65歲以上的老人每天花在休閒運動上的時間至少就有7個小時。

馬里蘭大學（University Of Maryland）社會學教授，《生命中的時間：美國人消遣時間的奇異方式》的合著者約翰·羅賓遜（John Robinson）表示“這是一羣做出了所有令人震驚的選擇並實現了自身的夢想的羣體。”

“退休黨們將額外時間大都花費在閱讀，休息和看電視上。”

退休黨們將花費超乎所有公民2倍多的時間去輕鬆自我，思考人生（0.6個小時）以及閱讀書籍（0.7個小時），而普通大衆卻僅僅在這方面花費0.3個小時。同年輕人一樣，老年人也會選擇上網休閒的方式輕鬆自我，並花時間同朋友相聚交談，而在鍛鍊方面僅會花費很少的時間。

看電視。

美國人平均每天看2個小時45分鐘的電視。退休黨們看得更多，平均每天4.2個小時。65歲以上的男性每天看電視時間爲4.73個小時，比同齡女性（3.74小時）多1個小時。75歲以上的老年人看的電視比任何其他年齡段的人都多。

睡覺。

老年人在休閒活動上唯一花費最多時間的便是睡覺。同大多數人8.7個小時的睡眠時間相比，退休黨們每天要花費9個小時的睡眠時間。

做家務。

與全美所有公民1.8個小時的家務活時間相比，退休黨們每天便要花費2.4個小時來處理各種家務勞動。65歲及以上的人們將花費更多的時間用以家務、烹飪、清掃、草坪和花園的護理上。

吃吃喝喝。

典型的美國人每天將花費75分鐘的時間用於餐飲。退休人員們在這方面花費得略微長久，平均合計下來每天共90分鐘。

工作。

並不是所有65歲以上的人們都會選擇退休。典型的老年人羣每天將花費1個小時的時間用於工作。但是同整體公民相比，老年人又不會在工作方面花費太多的時間，平均每天僅有3.5個小時。美國人時間使用調查的項目經理雷切爾·肯特（Rachel Krantz-Kent）表示“老年羣體一般不太容易就業，所以他們的工作時間也就相對較少。”與成人羣體每天花費半小時用於學習，退休黨們也很少在接受正規教育上花費時間。

購物。

退休黨們擁有足夠的時間去做“市場調查”並通過商家之間的對比來購買物品，這樣算來，每天光在這些事兒上他們就要花費0.87個小時而全體美國公民僅會花費0.72個小時來購買商品和享受商家服務。

志願者。

退休人員們一般花很少的時間（0.07個小時）來照顧家庭成員但卻花費0.2個小時來照顧家庭之外需要幫助的人士。相比而言，全美公民每天將近花掉半個小時的時間來照顧家人、小孩，這同退休黨們照顧外人所花費的時間大大相同。然而，退休人員卻比大多數美國人更致力於志願服務和宗教信仰等精神活動之中，在這些活動上他們每天便要花費15分鐘的時間。