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SOCIETY
PANORAMA
LEISURE TIME AND TRAVEL
Popular leisure time activities
Of 100 people polled in Germany in each category,
the following number engage in the activities at
least once a week:
97
Watching TV
Listening to the radio
90
Telephoning
from home
89
Surfing on the Internet
71
72
Reading
newspapers/magazines
Telephoning while
out and about
Spending
time with
their partner
68
Sleeping in
65
71
Thinking
64
73
61
Computer
61
Talking about
important things
Listening to a
CD/MP3 file
52
54
Drinking coffee/
eating cake
Taking time to
pamper oneself
Less than
The amount of leisure
1 hour
time Germans have
The amount of time
Germans have on a working
3%
day to do things they enjoy:
1 to 2
hours
2.5 to 4
hours
18 %
38 %
4.5 to 6
hours
17 %
More than
6 hours
23 %
23 million
43,957
28 million
94 %
Germans engage
in voluntary activities in
their leisure time
people take part in
the Federal Volunteer
Service programme
people in
Germany are members
of a sports club
of private
households have at least
one mobile phone