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This is not surprising – most of us try to split our days into “work, rest and fun”, and so there are some predictable patterns. The first thing that jumps out from this chart is that there are indeed many similarities across countries. The data comes from the OECD and brings together estimates from time diaries where respondents are asked to record the sequence of what they did over a specific day, as well as from general questionnaires where respondents are asked to recall the amount of time spent on different activities on a specific day in the previous week.

In the chart here we compare average time spent across a number of common activities.