抄録
The purpose of the Part 2 is to analyze the time spent on social/cultural activities, through the findings of the time allocation survey (detailed in to part 1) and the supplementary questionnaire on free time conducted on the couples living in Setagaya Ward.
The questionnaire asked the “participation in each of the 48 hobby items, the 40 sport items, and the 20 social activity items, ” which were picked up on the basis of “The Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities” that was conducted by Statistics Bureau of Management and Coordination Agency of Japan.
The analysis of the questionnaire is concentrated on the time allocation by husbands and wives as follows.
The percentages of the respondents spending their free time on hobbies, sports, and social activities in the survey period are 56%, 40%, and 19% (husbands); 52%, 18%, and 34% (wives) respectively. The percentages of sports (wives) and social activities (husbands) stay in a low level. The numbers of hobbies and sports which they presently enjoy are 10.8 (husbands) and 11.4 (wives). The past and present percentages of the husbands participating in social activities are both rather low, or half of those of the wives. Both the husbands and the wives pick out the participation in the environmental preservation activities as a social activity they wish to take part in.
