Re: No Lyin'

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The only way to get me to five hours of leisure time is to include eating, getting dressed, etc. in that category...

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but when you're tenured, FL, that will move up to 24 hours.

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Not just eating and hygiene - I'd have to throw in commuting as well. Five hours a day. On what planet?

Oh, unless you took the whole weekend as leisure and averaged it across the week. (IMHO - doing laundry or getting my oil changed does *not* leisure make.)

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4

only 5 hours? jeez. that sucks.

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5

My guess is that 3.7 hours of work is our clue that leisure activities can be pursued at the workplace.

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I considered that too. I don't think that's how they coded, but I'm not positive (PDF).

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This is averaged over all days, saturdays, sundays and holidays included. A person with an 8 hour a day, five days a week job averages about 5.25 hours of work a day if he gets two weeks of vacation a year. You would end up with an average of 3.7 hours work a day if your population contained about 30% non-working people and 70% 8 hour a day, 5 days a week working people. Which seems about right: the employment to population ratio is a bit over 60%. Heavy overtime is probably compensated for by part-time workers.

This is not the modal day, which most of the reaction has assumed; it is the mean day.

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