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• W2099094071 abstract "This paper uses data from the UK Office for National Statistics 2000-2001 national time use study to examine levels of physical activity in the UK. The data cover a random national sample of private households across the UK, and all household members aged 8 and above were asked to keep two 24 hour diaries of their activities, on diary on a week day and the other on a weekend day. This paper assesses both the reported level of participation in sports in the last four weeks and also the reported time undertaking six categories of physical activity: participation in sports and keeping fit, productive exercise, physically active housework, physically active care, walking dogs, self-powered transport. Diary data include some limitations. Diaries only measure when activity occurs, but not the intensity of the activity. Diaries also generally do not collect activities of a very short duration, and diarists are often reluctant to include some activities, such a sexual and violent behaviour. The design of this particular study also did not collect information on what people did during formal education and paid work. In consequence, some physically active time is not included in this analysis. Most people in Britain regularly engage in over two hours of physical activity on a daily basis. Some positive challenges to common stereotypes emerge in the data. Women and older people are much more physically active than popular mythology might suggest. Having a driving license and access to the internet at home increase the likelihood of participating in sports and undertaking regular exercise. The data also reveal worrying trends. Young people are increasingly inactive, and the average teenager undertakes less exercise than the average pensioner. On the average day, 15% of the British population undertake no exercise that lasts in excess of 5 minutes, and this finding is not likely to be explained by artefacts of the study design. This latter finding raises worrying prospects for the future health of the largely inactive. NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY This paper examines data from the National Survey of Time Use conducted by the Office for National Statistics which was released earlier this year. This study is based on a random national sample of around 5,000 households. All people aged 8 and older in these households were asked to keep a diary of their activities over two randomly selected days, one week day and one weekend day. This study examined time in a range of physical activities: sports and exercise; walking dogs; physically active housework (such as vacuuming, moving furniture and many forms of DIY); physically active care (helping an adult out of bed, bathing young children); productive exercise (such as turning soil in an allotment by hand or picking berries); and travel on foot or bicycle. On the average day, young people aged 8-19 spent just under an hour on a work or school day and nearly 2 hours on a day they did not work or attend school doing any form of physical activity. Britons aged 65+ tended to be active for 2 hours. The gap is large enough to reflect a real difference in lifestyle between younger and older people. The data also show that on any given day, nearly one-fifth of Britons do no physical activity that lasts longer than 5 consecutive minutes. While only 10% of people aged 65+ are this inactive, 21% of people aged 8-35 did no exercise lasting at least 10 minutes in their day. Though boys are more physically active than girls, after the age of 20, women tend to be more physically active than men until they reach pension age. At all ages, men spend more time than women playing sports, but women spend more time than men performing physically active housework and care as adults. Diarists were asked if they had participated in any of 43 sports in the last four weeks. Over half of Britons said they played some sports on at least a monthly basis. Nevertheless, approaching half of the sample 42% (4229 people) indicated that they had not participated in any sport – not even keep fit exercises over the last four weeks. People who say they almost always feel rushed are less likely to participate in sports and keep fit exercise during a month than people who only occasionally feel rushed. Yet people who seldom or never feel time pressured are even less likely than those who always feel rushed to participate in sports. More curiously, people who have access to the internet at home are more likely to participate in sports than those who do not have internet access at home. The association holds across the age groups, and is particularly large for people in the older working age groups. The diary data only show the time which people are active, but not the intensity of exercise or the number of calories people burn while doing exercise. Even so, young people naturally have more potential energy to spend than pensioners. People’s lifestyle choices in youth can significantly influence their chances of health in older age. Young people who lead a sedentary lifestyle face greater risks of obesity and health problems in later life. A quick glance through the popular discourse generates an alarming picture of the physical health of people living in the United Kingdom. Data collected by the British Heart Foundation suggest that one-third of British children aged two to seven are not undertaking minimum levels of recommended exercise, and are developing problems including high blood pressure as a result (BBCi April 2002). Not only are expanding waistlines causing clothing designers to amend standard clothing sizes (BBCi 24 July 2002), even household pets are piling on the pounds and losing muscle tone (BBCi 18 July 2002). Devices that send electric shocks to the stomach, pills to control the appetite and stimulate muscle action, and other medications to make people eat less and tone their muscles with minimum effort, and even techniques to enable people improve muscle strength by visualising exercise rather than doing it appear to be the rage. The coach potato stereotype thrives in the popular parlance. This paper tests the stereotype of pervasive sedentary lifestyles in the UK by looking at participation in sports in the last four weeks, and also at physical activities which people undertake on a daily basis. This paper also demonstrates the importance of using time diary data for such investigation." @default.
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• W2099094071 title "Chewing the Fat: the Story Time Diaries Tell About Physical Activity in the United Kingdom" @default.
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