Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2000

Variable Details

Variableevact17
Labelmain activity -episode 17
Responses
0 Unspecified personal care 0
10 Unspecified Sleep 0
110 Sleep 781
120 Sick in bed 4
210 Eating 2298
300 Unspecified other personal care 1
310 Wash and dress 922
390 Other specified personal care 29
1000 Unspecified employment 0
1110 Working time in main job 185
1120 Coffee and other breaks in main job 26
1210 Working time in second job 7
1220 Coffee and other breaks in second job 0
1300 Unspecified activities related to employment 0
1310 Lunch break 10
1390 Other specified activities related to employment 0
1391 Activities related to job seeking 3
1399 Other specified activities related to employment 11
2000 Unspecified study 0
2100 Unspecified activities related to school or university 0
2110 Classes and lectures 20
2120 Homework 82
2190 Other specified activities related to school or university 2
2210 Free Time Study 17
3000 Unspecified household and family care 8
3100 Unspecified food management 0
3110 Food preparation 1224
3120 Baking 9
3130 Dish washing 565
3140 Preserving 0
3190 Other specified food management 0
3200 Unspecified household upkeep 1
3210 Cleaning dwelling 396
3220 Cleaning yard 17
3230 Heating and water 12
3240 Various arrangements 303
3250 Disposal of Waste 6
3290 Other specified household upkeep 17
3300 Unspecified making and care for textiles 1
3310 Laundry 204
3320 Ironing 128
3330 Handicraft and producing textiles 42
3390 Other specified making and care for textiles 6
3400 Unspecified gardening and pet care 0
3410 Gardening 192
3420 Tending domestic animals 19
3430 Caring for pets 92
3440 Walking the dog 112
3490 Other specified gardening and pet care 1
3500 Unspecified construction and repairs 4
3510 House construction and renovation 6
3520 Repairs of dwelling 33
3530 Unspecified making, repairing and maintaining equipment 0
3531 Woodcraft, metal craft, sculpture and pottery 5
3539 Other specified making, repairing and maintaining equipment 25
3540 Vehicle maintenance 41
3590 Other specified construction and repairs 1
3600 Unspecified shopping and services 1
3610 Unspecified shopping 222
3611 Shopping mainly for food 147
3612 Shopping mainly for clothing 12
3613 Shopping mainly related to accommodation 35
3614 Shopping or browsing at car boot sales or antique fairs 5
3615 Window shopping or other shopping as leisure 18
3619 Other specified shopping 60
3620 Commercial and administrative services 45
3630 Personal services 38
3690 Other specified shopping and services 2
3710 Household management not using the internet 63
3720 Unspecified household management using the internet 0
3721 Shping for&ordring unspec gds&srvs via internet 1
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 1
3800 Unspecified childcare 0
3810 Unspecified physical care & supervision of a child 17
3811 Feeding the child 51
3819 Other specified physical care & supervision of a child 186
3820 Teaching the child 20
3830 Reading, playing and talking with child 116
3840 Accompanying child 23
3890 Other specified childcare 2
3910 Unspecified help to an adult household member 1
3911 Physical care & supervision of an adult household member 11
3914 Accompanying an adult household member 0
3919 Other specified help to an adult household member 6
4000 Unspecified volunteer work and meetings 0
4100 Unspecified organisational work 0
4110 Work for an organisation 21
4120 Volunteer work through an organisation 11
4190 Other specified organisational work 0
4200 Unspecified informal help 0
4210 Food management as help 25
4220 Household upkeep as help 27
4230 Gardening and pet care as help 22
4240 Construction and repairs as help 7
4250 Shopping and services as help 8
4260 Help in employment and farming 1
4270 Unspecified childcare as help 9
4271 Physical care and supervision of a child as help 29
4272 Teaching the child as help 2
4273 Reading, playing & talking to the child as help 21
4274 Accompanying the child as help 2
4279 Other specified childcare as help 5
4280 Unspecified help to an adult member of another household 0
4281 Physical care and supervision of an adult as help 8
4284 Accompanying an adult as help 0
4289 Other specified help to an adult member of another household 6
4290 Other specified informal help 8
4300 Unspecified participatory activities 0
4310 Meetings 7
4320 Religious activities 50
4390 Other specified participatory activities 3
5000 Unspecified social life and entertainment 0
5100 Unspecified social life 0
5110 Socialising with household members 173
5120 Visiting and receiving visitors 536
5130 Feasts 15
5140 Telephone conversation 209
5190 Other specified social life 285
5200 Unspecified entertainment and culture 0
5210 Cinema 6
5220 Unspecified theatre or concerts 2
5221 Plays, musicals or pantomimes 5
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 3
5225 Dance performances 0
5229 Other specified theatre or concerts 0
5230 Art exhibitions and museums 2
5240 Unspecified library 1
5241 Brwing bks rcds audio video,CDs,VDs from library 1
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 1
5245 Reading newspapers in a library 0
5246 Listening to music in a library 0
5249 Other specified library activities 0
5250 Sports events 12
5290 Other specified entertainment and culture 0
5291 Visiting a historical site 4
5292 Visiting a wildlife site 3
5293 Visiting a botanical site 1
5294 Visiting a leisure park 7
5295 Visiting an urban park, playground or designated play area 26
5299 Other specified entertainment or culture 15
5310 Resting – Time out 391
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 39
6119 Other walk or hike 33
6120 Jogging and running 2
6130 Biking, skiing and skating 0
6131 Biking 15
6132 Skiing or skating 3
6140 Unspecified ball games 0
6141 Indoor pairs or doubles games 13
6142 Indoor team games 4
6143 Outdoor pairs or doubles games 12
6144 Outdoor team games 23
6149 Other specified ball games 3
6150 Gymnastics 5
6160 Fitness 18
6170 Unspecified water sports 0
6171 Swimming 21
6179 Other specified water sports 2
6190 Other specified physical exercise 22
6200 Unspecified productive exercise 0
6210 Hunting and fishing 3
6220 Picking berries, mushroom and herbs 2
6290 Other specified productive exercise 0
6310 Unspecified sports related activities 0
6311 Activities related to sports 11
6312 Activities related to productive exercise 4
7000 Unspecified hobbies and games 0
7100 Unspecified arts 0
7110 Unspecified visual arts 0
7111 Painting, drawing or other graphic arts 17
7112 Making videos, taking photos or related activities 4
7119 Other specified visual arts 0
7120 Unspecified performing arts 0
7121 Singing or other musical activities 35
7129 Other specified performing arts 2
7130 Literary arts 2
7190 Other specified arts 0
7200 Unspecified hobbies 0
7210 Collecting 0
7220 Computing – programming 7
7230 Unspecified information by computing 1
7231 Information searching on the internet 7
7239 Other specified information by computing 2
7240 Unspecified communication by computer 2
7241 Communication on the internet 13
7249 Other specified communication by computing 1
7250 Unspecified other computing 39
7251 Unspecified internet use 30
7259 Other specified computing 21
7260 Correspondence 15
7290 Other specified hobbies 14
7300 Unspecified games 24
7310 Solo games and play 53
7320 Unspecified games and play with others 95
7321 Billiards, pool, snooker or petanque 9
7322 Chess and bridge 0
7329 Other specified parlour games and play 45
7330 Computer games 118
7340 Gambling 17
7390 Other specified games 7
8000 Unspecified mass media 0
8100 Unspecified reading 110
8110 Reading periodicals 240
8120 Reading books 94
8190 Other specified reading 12
8210 Unspecified TV watching 1857
8211 Watching a film on TV 28
8212 Watching sport on TV 74
8219 Other specified TV watching 87
8220 Unspecified video watching 70
8221 Watching a film on video 4
8222 Watching sport on video 1
8229 Other specified video watching 1
8300 Unspecified listening to radio and music 50
8310 Unspecified radio listening 50
8311 Listening to music on the radio 1
8312 Listening to sport on the radio 1
8319 Other specified radio listening 7
8320 Listening to recordings 25
9000 Travel related to unspecified time use 24
9010 Travel related to personal business 5
9110 Travel in the course of work 2
9130 Travel to work from home and back only 242
9140 Travel to work from a place other than home 21
9210 Travel related to education 58
9230 Travel escorting to/ from education 66
9310 Travel related to household care 29
9360 Travel related to shopping 622
9370 Travel related to services 98
9380 Travel escorting a child (other than education) 75
9390 Travel escorting an adult (other than education) 66
9410 Travel related to organisational work 37
9420 Travel related to informal help to other households 106
9430 Travel related to religious activities 47
9440 Travel rlt to participatory actv except rel actv 16
9500 Travel to visit friends/ relatives in their homes 570
9510 Travel related to other social activities 390
9520 Travel related to entertainment and culture 115
9610 Travel related to physical exercise 121
9620 Travel related to hunting & fishing 1
9630 Travel related to productive excs expt hunting & fishing 0
9710 Travel related to gambling 19
9720 Travel related to hobbies other than gambling 18
9810 Travel to holiday base 23
9820 Travel for day trip/ just walk 44
9890 Other specified travel 22
9940 Punctuating activity 125
9950 Filling in the time use diary 85
9960 No main activity, no idea what it might be 241
9970 No main activity, some idea what it might be 39
9980 Illegible activity 10
9990 Unspecified time use 9
Sysmiss 3186
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationUnited Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2000