What Do People Do All Day?

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But beyond this, and more importantly, this confirms that time-use is informative about well-being. Wood and how we use it and building a new road are interestingly covered, a voyage on a ship is full of activity and finally where bread comes from reminds me of my Dad as a master baker when I used to go and play in the bakehouse and get covered in flour! Just like my Dad's bread, it did taste good! Soon I began drawing the characters (pigs were my favorite), first copying exactly and then getting the feel for how a pig was "constructed" and drawing the characters in new poses, outfits, etc. One of the first "lightbulbs" to go off for me about how much I loved to draw and paint. The chart here relies on the same time-use data described above, but shows total leisure time for men and women separately. Time for men is shown on the horizontal axis, while time for women appears on the vertical axis. The dotted diagonal line denotes ‘gender parity’, so the further away a country is from the diagonal line, the larger the difference between men and women. But the researchers found a lot of commonalities, too. Across the world, we all tend to spend about the same amount of time eating, preparing food, transporting ourselves, and grooming and washing. The Human Chronome Project

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This title encapsulates the question I ask to myself as I drive around in Houston trafffic--What Do People Do All Day? Ha ha. A classic. You find a very clear and complete explanation of this in Ramey, V. A., & Francis, N. (2009). A century of work and leisure. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(2), 189-224. Differences in demographics, education and economic prosperity all contribute to these inequalities in work and time use. But what’s clear in the chart here is that there are also some differences in time use that are not well explained by economic or demographic differences. In the UK, for example, people spend more time working than in France; but in both countries people report spending a similar amount of time on leisure activities. This is not surprising – most of us try to split our days into “work, rest and fun”, and so there are some predictable patterns. We spend the most time working and sleeping; and paid work, housework, leisure, eating and sleeping take together 80-90% of the 1440 minutes that we all have available every day.As we can see, in all countries the average leisure time for men is higher than for women – all bubbles are below the diagonal line – but in some countries the gaps are much larger. In Norway the difference is very small, while in Portugal men report almost 50% more leisure time than women. While each of us has a decent conception of how we spend our own time, the actions of our fellow humans — from our next-door neighbors to people living in faraway countries — can seem quite mysterious. Do they watch as much TV? Work as many hours? Fiddle with their smartphones as frequently? Cook as often? Spend as much time watching their kids? Every day, the planet's roughly 8 billion people collectively experience 190 billion unique hours of human life. Going beyond national averages reveals important within-country inequalities. The gender gap in leisure time, for example, is a key dimension along which large inequalities exist. I'm glad they didn't have too many office jobs. A lot of office jobs only work for big companies that create want. Useless want. And would have been too complex for kids to understand in my opinion. Kids understand the dentist. They aren't going to understand what a lawyer does. And I say this as a paralegal.

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Our World in Data presents the data and research to make progress against the world’s largest problems. While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally I have always found What Do People Do All Day? as much too frenetic and too in-your-face busy for my tastes (and most definitely with TOO MUCH of an emphasis on physical work, and especially on vehicles and machinery). In other words, I usually do tend to always consider Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever rather more balanced with regard to presenting an acceptable combination of home and public life (and thus also not as overtly and joyously extroverted as What Do People Do All Day?) and yes indeed, that What Do People Do All Day? is in my opinion simply and totally just a bit too constantly into getting up and going, too celebratory and supportive of the so-called modern rat race. The immense analysis constituted the first published data of the Human Chronome Project, an effort to create a database of global human activities. By assembling the human chronome, the researchers say that we can compare ourselves to civilizations from the past. More importantly, we can see from a high-level, empirical perspective what our species is doing on our planet and make more informed decisions about reallocating our collective time to change the world and society for the better. According to the research, people spend an average of 9.1 hours per day sleeping or resting. However, that figure includes newborns, who enjoy an easygoing 12-16 hours of shut-eye daily. ( Credit: Dakota Corbin / Unsplash)

Atgrubnagiškas lietuviškas leidimas. Beveik kiekviename puslapyje po maketavimo, vertimo ar logikos klaidą. Pvz, Mama Kriuksė sako "Gana valgyt!", o sūnus iš karto klausia, "ar galima nesuvalgyti šios paskutinės sėklelės?". Vardai nesulietuvinti, tad yra tokių perlų, kaip "Seli padėjo Ebi apsirengti marškinėlius". Jau gana, kad feisbukuose žmonės vieni į kitus vardininkais kreipiasi, kam tą dar daryti ir knygose? Ir dar vaikų? Gershuny, J., & Sullivan, O. (2019). What We Really Do All Day: Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research. Penguin UK. The activity where people show the greatest variation in enjoyment is working a “Second Job”. This likely reflects the difference between people who work a second job because they want to, and those who work a second job because they have to. Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited. All the software and code that we write is open source and made available via GitHub under the permissive MIT license. All other material, including data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data, is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors.