Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2000

Variable Details

Variableevact6
Labelmain activity -episode 6
Responses
0 Unspecified personal care 0
10 Unspecified Sleep 0
110 Sleep 126
120 Sick in bed 7
210 Eating 2558
300 Unspecified other personal care 3
310 Wash and dress 1782
390 Other specified personal care 65
1000 Unspecified employment 0
1110 Working time in main job 1113
1120 Coffee and other breaks in main job 210
1210 Working time in second job 3
1220 Coffee and other breaks in second job 0
1300 Unspecified activities related to employment 1
1310 Lunch break 92
1390 Other specified activities related to employment 0
1391 Activities related to job seeking 5
1399 Other specified activities related to employment 42
2000 Unspecified study 0
2100 Unspecified activities related to school or university 1
2110 Classes and lectures 355
2120 Homework 75
2190 Other specified activities related to school or university 68
2210 Free Time Study 31
3000 Unspecified household and family care 15
3100 Unspecified food management 0
3110 Food preparation 1107
3120 Baking 10
3130 Dish washing 833
3140 Preserving 2
3190 Other specified food management 0
3200 Unspecified household upkeep 1
3210 Cleaning dwelling 1055
3220 Cleaning yard 15
3230 Heating and water 21
3240 Various arrangements 317
3250 Disposal of Waste 7
3290 Other specified household upkeep 15
3300 Unspecified making and care for textiles 0
3310 Laundry 365
3320 Ironing 114
3330 Handicraft and producing textiles 9
3390 Other specified making and care for textiles 9
3400 Unspecified gardening and pet care 1
3410 Gardening 139
3420 Tending domestic animals 27
3430 Caring for pets 180
3440 Walking the dog 179
3490 Other specified gardening and pet care 1
3500 Unspecified construction and repairs 9
3510 House construction and renovation 10
3520 Repairs of dwelling 54
3530 Unspecified making, repairing and maintaining equipment 0
3531 Woodcraft, metal craft, sculpture and pottery 6
3539 Other specified making, repairing and maintaining equipment 21
3540 Vehicle maintenance 73
3590 Other specified construction and repairs 4
3600 Unspecified shopping and services 1
3610 Unspecified shopping 325
3611 Shopping mainly for food 78
3612 Shopping mainly for clothing 10
3613 Shopping mainly related to accommodation 16
3614 Shopping or browsing at car boot sales or antique fairs 19
3615 Window shopping or other shopping as leisure 17
3619 Other specified shopping 102
3620 Commercial and administrative services 63
3630 Personal services 50
3690 Other specified shopping and services 1
3710 Household management not using the internet 72
3720 Unspecified household management using the internet 1
3721 Shping for&ordring unspec gds&srvs via internet 0
3722 Shping for&ordring food via the internet 0
3723 Shping for&ordring clothing via the internet 0
3724 Shping for&ordring gds&srv related to acc via internet 0
3725 Shping for&ordring mass media via the internet 0
3726 Shping for&ordring entertainment via the internet 0
3727 Banking and bill paying via the internet 0
3729 Other specified household management using the internet 0
3800 Unspecified childcare 1
3810 Unspecified physical care & supervision of a child 19
3811 Feeding the child 68
3819 Other specified physical care & supervision of a child 345
3820 Teaching the child 7
3830 Reading, playing and talking with child 105
3840 Accompanying child 19
3890 Other specified childcare 3
3910 Unspecified help to an adult household member 2
3911 Physical care & supervision of an adult household member 34
3914 Accompanying an adult household member 2
3919 Other specified help to an adult household member 26
4000 Unspecified volunteer work and meetings 0
4100 Unspecified organisational work 0
4110 Work for an organisation 16
4120 Volunteer work through an organisation 10
4190 Other specified organisational work 2
4200 Unspecified informal help 1
4210 Food management as help 12
4220 Household upkeep as help 9
4230 Gardening and pet care as help 13
4240 Construction and repairs as help 10
4250 Shopping and services as help 7
4260 Help in employment and farming 2
4270 Unspecified childcare as help 5
4271 Physical care and supervision of a child as help 22
4272 Teaching the child as help 1
4273 Reading, playing & talking to the child as help 11
4274 Accompanying the child as help 0
4279 Other specified childcare as help 2
4280 Unspecified help to an adult member of another household 0
4281 Physical care and supervision of an adult as help 2
4284 Accompanying an adult as help 2
4289 Other specified help to an adult member of another household 1
4290 Other specified informal help 5
4300 Unspecified participatory activities 0
4310 Meetings 2
4320 Religious activities 92
4390 Other specified participatory activities 2
5000 Unspecified social life and entertainment 0
5100 Unspecified social life 1
5110 Socialising with household members 125
5120 Visiting and receiving visitors 307
5130 Feasts 1
5140 Telephone conversation 153
5190 Other specified social life 145
5200 Unspecified entertainment and culture 0
5210 Cinema 5
5220 Unspecified theatre or concerts 0
5221 Plays, musicals or pantomimes 0
5222 Opera, operetta or light opera 0
5223 Concerts or other performances of classical music 0
5224 Live music other than classical concerts, opera and musicals 0
5225 Dance performances 0
5229 Other specified theatre or concerts 0
5230 Art exhibitions and museums 1
5240 Unspecified library 5
5241 Brwing bks rcds audio video,CDs,VDs from library 0
5242 Reference to bks and other library materials within library 0
5243 Using internet in the library 0
5244 Using computers in the library other than internet use 0
5245 Reading newspapers in a library 0
5246 Listening to music in a library 0
5249 Other specified library activities 0
5250 Sports events 22
5290 Other specified entertainment and culture 0
5291 Visiting a historical site 0
5292 Visiting a wildlife site 3
5293 Visiting a botanical site 0
5294 Visiting a leisure park 6
5295 Visiting an urban park, playground or designated play area 11
5299 Other specified entertainment or culture 8
5310 Resting – Time out 264
6000 Unspecified sports and outdoor activities 0
6100 Unspecified physical exercise 1
6110 Walking and hiking 0
6111 Taking a walk or hike that lasts at least 2 miles or 1 hour 37
6119 Other walk or hike 38
6120 Jogging and running 9
6130 Biking, skiing and skating 0
6131 Biking 22
6132 Skiing or skating 9
6140 Unspecified ball games 0
6141 Indoor pairs or doubles games 3
6142 Indoor team games 3
6143 Outdoor pairs or doubles games 25
6144 Outdoor team games 45
6149 Other specified ball games 4
6150 Gymnastics 16
6160 Fitness 25
6170 Unspecified water sports 0
6171 Swimming 21
6179 Other specified water sports 3
6190 Other specified physical exercise 18
6200 Unspecified productive exercise 0
6210 Hunting and fishing 10
6220 Picking berries, mushroom and herbs 1
6290 Other specified productive exercise 0
6310 Unspecified sports related activities 0
6311 Activities related to sports 26
6312 Activities related to productive exercise 0
7000 Unspecified hobbies and games 0
7100 Unspecified arts 0
7110 Unspecified visual arts 1
7111 Painting, drawing or other graphic arts 8
7112 Making videos, taking photos or related activities 3
7119 Other specified visual arts 1
7120 Unspecified performing arts 0
7121 Singing or other musical activities 17
7129 Other specified performing arts 1
7130 Literary arts 4
7190 Other specified arts 0
7200 Unspecified hobbies 0
7210 Collecting 0
7220 Computing – programming 5
7230 Unspecified information by computing 1
7231 Information searching on the internet 4
7239 Other specified information by computing 0
7240 Unspecified communication by computer 0
7241 Communication on the internet 26
7249 Other specified communication by computing 1
7250 Unspecified other computing 27
7251 Unspecified internet use 5
7259 Other specified computing 15
7260 Correspondence 11
7290 Other specified hobbies 9
7300 Unspecified games 34
7310 Solo games and play 36
7320 Unspecified games and play with others 93
7321 Billiards, pool, snooker or petanque 6
7322 Chess and bridge 0
7329 Other specified parlour games and play 16
7330 Computer games 117
7340 Gambling 3
7390 Other specified games 7
8000 Unspecified mass media 0
8100 Unspecified reading 98
8110 Reading periodicals 474
8120 Reading books 55
8190 Other specified reading 7
8210 Unspecified TV watching 857
8211 Watching a film on TV 7
8212 Watching sport on TV 29
8219 Other specified TV watching 62
8220 Unspecified video watching 25
8221 Watching a film on video 2
8222 Watching sport on video 2
8229 Other specified video watching 0
8300 Unspecified listening to radio and music 23
8310 Unspecified radio listening 75
8311 Listening to music on the radio 0
8312 Listening to sport on the radio 1
8319 Other specified radio listening 15
8320 Listening to recordings 15
9000 Travel related to unspecified time use 39
9010 Travel related to personal business 5
9110 Travel in the course of work 3
9130 Travel to work from home and back only 1131
9140 Travel to work from a place other than home 58
9210 Travel related to education 565
9230 Travel escorting to/ from education 138
9310 Travel related to household care 45
9360 Travel related to shopping 856
9370 Travel related to services 139
9380 Travel escorting a child (other than education) 77
9390 Travel escorting an adult (other than education) 73
9410 Travel related to organisational work 18
9420 Travel related to informal help to other households 82
9430 Travel related to religious activities 85
9440 Travel rlt to participatory actv except rel actv 5
9500 Travel to visit friends/ relatives in their homes 348
9510 Travel related to other social activities 142
9520 Travel related to entertainment and culture 77
9610 Travel related to physical exercise 182
9620 Travel related to hunting & fishing 7
9630 Travel related to productive excs expt hunting & fishing 0
9710 Travel related to gambling 1
9720 Travel related to hobbies other than gambling 16
9810 Travel to holiday base 34
9820 Travel for day trip/ just walk 46
9890 Other specified travel 21
9940 Punctuating activity 83
9950 Filling in the time use diary 42
9960 No main activity, no idea what it might be 248
9970 No main activity, some idea what it might be 27
9980 Illegible activity 9
9990 Unspecified time use 12
Sysmiss 45
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationUnited Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2000