英国男人都是“电视迷”

British men are couch potatoes(成天躺在沙发上看电视的人) who spend nearly half their free time watching TV, an EU survey has revealed.

They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare――but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests.

Analysts from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries.

Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%.

German and Norwegian men watched the least TV――just over one third of their spare time.

The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends.

They broke down the "average day" into five categories――free-time, sleep, meals and personal care, travel, domestic chores and work/study.

It shows that British men have four hours and 41 minutes free time each day - 20 minutes more than women.

But women spend nearly double the amount of time on domestic chores than men.

Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman's day is taken up with domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men.

Food preparation makes up the bulk of the chores, with cleaning and shopping the next most time-consuming.

They further broke down the free-time and domestic categories to reveal that men spend 137 minutes each day in front of the TV, compared to women's 114 minutes.

Women spend slightly more time socialising(socialise=socialize 社交), resting and reading than men, but slightly less time on hobbies, sport and exercise.

Universally unpopular with both sexes is culture――accounting for just 2% of both men and women's leisure time.

EU statisticians interviewed people between the ages of 20 and 74 years old in Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, the UK and Norway.

欧盟的一份调查显示：英国男人都是“电视迷”，他们有将近一半的空闲时间是在电视机前度过的。

调查结果表明，他们看电视的时间比女人们还长，而他们在做家务、参加慈善事业和看护孩子方面做的较少，却将更多的时间花在购物上。

欧盟统计局（Eurostat）的分析师们采访了来自10个国家的男性和女性工作者。

英国男人将49%的空闲时间贡献给了电视，仅略低于匈牙利人的51%。

德国和挪威男人看电视的时间最少，仅仅略多于业余时间的1/3。

统计学家们把全年的数字累加起来算出平均数，其中包括假期和周末。

他们把一天的活动分为五大类，其中包括空闲时间、睡眠、吃饭和个人护理、旅行、家务活和工作或学习。

统计结果显示，英国男人每天有4小时41分钟的空闲时间，比（英国）女人多20分钟。

但是，女人们花在家务活上的时间几乎是男人的两倍。

女人一天中差不多有三个半小时用来做家务，相比之下男人只花不到两小时。

准备食物在家务活中占了很大一部分，接下来最花时间的是打扫卫生和采购。

统计学家们进一步细分了空闲时间和家庭生活的种类，发现男人每天要在电视机前花费137 分钟，而妇女是114 分钟。

女人会比男人稍微多花一点时间去社交、休息和阅读，但她们花在个人爱好、运动和锻炼上的时间略少。

普遍不受男女欢迎的是“文化”，只占男人和女人闲暇时间的2%。

欧盟的统计学家们采访的对象为年龄从20到74岁的人群，他们来自不同的国家，其中包括比利时、德国、爱沙尼亚、法国、匈牙利、斯洛文尼亚、芬兰、瑞士、英国和挪威。