Year: 2007
Module: Hobbies
Variable: Hobby1, Hobby2, Hobby3

Please name up to three hobbies or leisure time activities that you yourself engage in.

The tables below are based on the recoded responses and show the proportion of respondents as well as total number for each hobby (Tables 1-3) and for all responses (Table 4).

 

Table 1: Respondents' first hobby (coded)

 
%

Number of respondents

Sports
56
338
Playing music/singing
7
43
Dancing
3
20
Socialising, going out, meeting with friends
3
19
Shopping
3
18
Youth or community group
3
17
Reading
3
16
Walking
3
16
Computer/Internet/Computer games
2
15
Horse Riding
2
15
Arts/Crafts/Photography
2
11
Cinema
2
10
Air/Army/Fire Cadets
2
10
Other
9
52
All
100
600

 

Table 2: Respondents' second hobby (coded)

 
%

Number of respondents

Sports
39
229
Socialising, going out, meeting with friends
10
59
Playing music/singing
8
44
Computer/Internet/Computer games
6
33
Reading
4
21
Walking
4
21
Youth or community group
4
21
Shopping
3
19
Cinema
4
16
Dancing
3
15
Watching TV
2
12
Listening to music
2
11
Acting/Drama
2
10
Other
12
69
All
100
580

 

Table 3: Respondents' third hobby (coded)

 
%

Number of respondents

Sports
30
162
Socialising, going out, meeting with friends
14
76
Computer/Internet/Computer games
7
38
Playing music/singing
5
28
Reading
5
26
Listening to music
4
22
Shopping
4
21
Cinema
4
20
Walking
3
17
Youth or community group
3
15
Watching TV
2
12
Arts/Crafts/Photography
2
12
Dancing
2
9
Other
15
78
All
100
535

 

 

Table 4: Summary - All hobbies (coded)
Note that each respondent could name up to three hobbies, and so the total number of hobbies listed in this table will be up to three times larger than the number of respondents.

 
%

N

Sports
42
729
Socialising, going out, meeting with friends
9
154
Playing music/singing
7
115
Computer/Internet/Computer games
5
86
Reading
4
63
Shopping
3
58
Walking
3
54
Youth or community group
3
53
Cinema
3
46
Dancing
3
44
Listening to music
2
40
Arts/Crafts/Photography
2
31
Watching TV
1
25
Acting/Drama
1
23
Horse riding
1
22
Fishing
1
18
Air/Army/Fire Cadets
<1
10
Other
5
78
All
100
1,715

 

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