By Grant Cushman, Anthony J. Veal, Jiri Zuzanek
ISBN-10: 0851996205
ISBN-13: 9780851996202
This publication is an accelerated and up-to-date variation of a prior paintings entitled international relaxation Participation: unfastened Time within the worldwide Village, via an analogous editors (CABI, 1996). It brings jointly the result of nationwide rest participation surveys from 15 economically built nations (3 of which have been no longer coated within the prior volume). as well as updating chapters to incorporate the most recent surveys, the e-book contains elevated insurance of time-budget surveys and new topics comparable to public coverage dimensions. it will likely be of vital curiosity to these operating within the components of rest experiences, sociology, time-use experiences, and social coverage. The booklet has 18 chapters and an index.
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In particular it is notable that, of the 15 activities where women’s participation rates are higher, seven are home-based, illustrating the constraints on women in regarding access to activities outside the home environment. 3. Two particular features should be noted: first, for 29 of the 40 listed activities, the lowest participation rate is among the 60-plus, age group. In surveys where the list of activities is dominated by sports and other physically demanding pastimes, this might be expected, but this is not the case here.
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