Time use in Finland

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Where (in what kind of buildings) do people in Finland spend their time?

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Time use in Finland(visits/d)

Obs	Place	Age	Sex	Visits	Description
1	Concert	10-14	All	7
2	Concert	15-24	All	20
3	Concert	25-44	All	44
4	Concert	45-64	All	38
5	Concert	65-	All	16
6	Concert	All	M	59
7	Concert	All	F	77
8	Concert	All	All	137
9	Movie	10-14	All	12
10	Movie	15-24	All	28
11	Movie	25-44	All	48
12	Movie	45-64	All	31
13	Movie	65-	All	9
14	Movie	All	M	65
15	Movie	All	F	74
16	Movie	All	All	140
17	Theatre	10-14	All	7
18	Theatre	15-24	All	12
19	Theatre	25-44	All	30
20	Theatre	45-64	All	38
21	Theatre	65-	All	20
22	Theatre	All	M	44
23	Theatre	All	F	71
24	Theatre	All	All	118
25	Opera	10-14	All	0
26	Opera	15-24	All	1
27	Opera	25-44	All	3
28	Opera	45-64	All	6
29	Opera	65-	All	3
30	Opera	All	M	5
31	Opera	All	F	11
32	Opera	All	All	16
33	Art museums and exhibitions	10-14	All	8
34	Art museums and exhibitions	15-24	All	16
35	Art museums and exhibitions	25-44	All	31
36	Art museums and exhibitions	45-64	All	37
37	Art museums and exhibitions	65-	All	16
38	Art museums and exhibitions	All	M	50
39	Art museums and exhibitions	All	F	68
40	Art museums and exhibitions	All	All	118
41	Other museums	10-14	All	9
42	Other museums	15-24	All	12
43	Other museums	25-44	All	32
44	Other museums	45-64	All	34
45	Other museums	65-	All	15
46	Other museums	All	M	55
47	Other museums	All	F	53
48	Other museums	All	All	118
49	Sport competition	10-14	All	9
50	Sport competition	15-24	All	18
51	Sport competition	25-44	All	38
52	Sport competition	45-64	All	30
53	Sport competition	65-	All	9
54	Sport competition	All	M	67
55	Sport competition	All	F	47
56	Sport competition	All	All	115
57	Gym	10-14	All	60
58	Gym	15-24	All	927
59	Gym	25-44	All	1051
60	Gym	45-64	All	531
61	Gym	65-	All	169
62	Gym	All	M	1806
63	Gym	All	F	945
64	Gym	All	All	2964

Rationale

Dependencies

The average time use of employed people in Finland between 1998-2001 (Hours:minutes/day)

	Men	Women
Gainful employment	5:28	4:15
Household chores	2:00	3:25
Voluntary job, helping neightbours	0:11	0:12
Social intercourse, studying, organizational activities, culture	0:57	1:04
Sports, hobbies, resting	1:03	0:52
TV and video	2:03	1:40
Reading, music, radio	0:43	0:47
Sleep	8:10	8:22
Dining, personl service	1:56	2:02
Trips	1:17	1:15
Other	0:10	0:08

A typical employed Finn seems to be at work from 4 to 5,5 hours a day. Time at home varies from 14 to 18,5 hours per day.

The time use of non-working status (hours/week)

Age	18-29		30-39		40-54		55-64		65-74		All		All
Gender	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Both
Work	2,8	1,4	0,5	0,6	2,5	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,4	0,1	1,28	0,6	0,9
Housework	7,5	33,4	22,4	35,8	22,1	33,1	22,1	30,9	20,0	29,7	18,8	32,6	25,7
Free time	62,7	46,8	64,7	33,5	63,0	51,3	65,5	55,4	61,9	53,2	63,5	48,0	55,8
Travelling	6,4	7,0	8,9	7,1	6,7	5,4	6,0	5,3	8,6	7,6	7,3	6,4	6,9

Labor status by age

Socioeconomic status	55-64 yr (%)	45-54 yr (%)	18-44 yr (%)	18-64 yr (%)
Working	45,0	87,3	68,2	66,8
Unemployed	10,0	6,2	6,6	7,6
Student	0,3	0,9	17,9	6,4
Disabled	16,3	3,8	0,9	7
Other pensioner	25,3	0,3	0	8,5
Housewife	2,2	1,2	5,8	3,1
Unknown	0,9	0,2	0,5	0,5

Time spent awake at home per day of 25-30 yrs old people (%)

	Less than 4 hrs	4-5 hrs	6-7 hrs	8-9 hrs	10-12 hrs	Over 12 hrs	Average hrs
Businessman/spelialist/manager (n=249)	1	30	29	23	11	6	7.3
Employeé (n=289)	1	16	34	24	11	13	8.07
Student (n=338)	1	17	38	19	15	10	8.02
Homemaker (n=51)	0	2	16	10	26	47	11.91
Unemployed (n=63)	2	10	27	13	22	28	9.71
All (n=995)	1	19	33	21	14	13	8.15

From the following 7 tables, it is calculated that how many people in average visit these buildings per day in a population of 100 000. Note that this is the minimum amount of visitors, because tables do not show how many times in a year these people have visited these places.

Visiting conserts (%) (Note: Can be either indoor or outdoor)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	46	60	59	48	33	44	55	50
Been before	35	31	37	43	54	43	40	41
Never been	19	10	4	9	13	12	6	9

Average 137 visitors/day

Going to movies (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	81	82	65	39	18	48	53	51
Been before	16	15	33	58	79	50	45	47
Never been	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2

Average 140 visitors/day

Visiting theathre (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	44	36	40	49	41	33	51	43
Been before	47	57	55	46	53	58	45	51
Never been	9	7	5	5	5	8	3	6

Average 118 visitors/day

Goin to the opera (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	2	3	4	8	7	4	8	6
Been before	13	16	30	33	42	24	36	31
Never been	85	80	65	58	51	71	56	63

Average 16 visitors/day

Visiting art museums or exhibitions (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	53	47	42	47	34	37	49	43
Been before	33	43	50	43	53	49	44	46
Never been	14	10	8	10	13	14	7	10

Average 118 visitors/day

Visiting museums (other than art) (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	58	37	43	43	31	41	38	43
Been before	35	56	54	52	63	56	53	54
Never been	6	7	3	5	6	6	4	5

Average 118 visitors/day

Visiting sports competitions (%) (Note: Can also be both indoor and outdoor)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
Been in 12 months	60	52	52	38	19	50	34	42
Not been in 12 months	29	41	43	52	65	44	54	49

Average 115 visitors/day

Going to gym (in 4 weeks) (%)

	Age 10-14	Age 15-24	Age 25-44	Age 45-64	Age 65-	Men	Women	All over 10 years old
At least 20 times	1	3	1	0	-	1	0	1
10-19 times	0	9	5	2	1	5	2	3
4-9 times	2	13	8	7	4	7	7	7
1-3 times	3	9	7	4	1	5	4	5
Not been in 4 weeks	94	67	79	88	94	81	86	84

The average of 2964 visitor/day.

Calculated by counting the percents with the population of 100 000, multiplied by the minimum visiting times and all added together and then divided by 28.

Age structure in Finland

Age	Men	Women	Total
0-4	154243	147378	301621
5-9	147824	141523	289347
10-14	151578	145131	296709
15-19	169224	162860	332084
20-24	167817	159963	327780
25-29	177710	168353	346063
30-34	174220	265057	339277
35-39	161115	152802	313917
40-44	177566	172117	349683
45-49	190596	186481	377077
50-54	187628	187229	374857
55-59	190137	193971	384108
60-64	197048	204664	401712
65-69	134543	147454	281997
70-74	100784	122711	223495
75-79	75178	104459	179637
80-84	51064	90688	141752
85-89	22807	57050	79857
90-	7334	26969	34303
Total	2638416	2736860	5375276

In percentage

Age	Sex	%
10-14	Both	5,5
15-24	Both	12,3
25-44	Both	27,0
45-64	Both	28,6
65-	Both	17,5
All	Men	49,1
All	Women	50,9

Keywords

Urgenche

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Time use in Finland. Opasnet . [6]. Accessed 07 May 2024.

[[7]]Statistics Finland - Time Use Survey

[[8]]Statistics Finland - Leisure Survey

[[9]]Tilastokeskus - Vapaa-aikatutkimus (Finnish) The information here is 10 yrs old. The use of time has probably changed so much this might not be valid.

[[10]]Hyvinvointikatsaus 2002 - Ajankäyttö meillä ja muualla (Finnish) Contains no useful information