VOICES OF YO UTH
SURVEY ON YOUT H IN BIH
Quantitative R esear ch Findings
Table 7: On average, how many hours a day have you spent doing one or more of the listed activities? Not at One hour 2-3 all or less hours
3-4 hours
4-5 hours
More than 5 hours
Do not want to answer
Watched Television
4.0%
21.8%
48.0%
13.3%
6.3%
6.4%
0.3%
Read books
40.1%
33.7%
18.1%
4.3%
1.7%
1.9%
0.3%
%
Went to a cafe/club or restaurant 23.3% Spent time on the Internet: facebook or other virtual social networks Spent time walking/in recreation/sports
Went to a beauty salon
38.6%
%
27.3%
%
6.4%
%
2.0%
%
2.2%
%
0.3%
21.7%
30.5%
30.6%
9.3%
4.2%
3.5%
0.3%
25.5%
47.2%
22.3%
2.3%
1.1%
1.2%
0.3%
38.9%
44.2%
6.4%
1.9%
1.7%
0.3%
19.4%
3.7%
0.5%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
Visited friends/socialised/studied 6.6% with friends Went to the a betting shop
%
76.6% 75.7%
17.5%
4.1%
1.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
A little over half of the young people stated that they had gone to the cinema or to a concert less than once a week during the previous month (56.1 and 55.2% respectively), while more than one-third had not engaged themselves in such activities at all (37.1% for cinema and 35.0% for concerts). The young people quite rarely attended the theatre: 36.9% of respondents had not been to the theatre during the previous month, 55.9% stated that they went to the theatre less than once a week and only 5.9% went to the theatre once a week or more frequently. In regard to visiting sports events the respondents most frequently answered that they attended such events less than once a week (54.2%), whereas more than a quarter of respondents (28.6%) did not go to sports matches at all. When it came to sports betting shops the results were similar: 52.8% of respondents had visited them less than once a week and 28.7% did not visit them at all. Most young people responded that they had gone hiking less than once a week during the previous month (51.7%) and around one-third of respondents stated that they never went hiking (33.4%). When it came to shopping 67.9% of the young people had gone shopping at least once a week or more frequently. Around two-thirds of respondents stated that they studied less than once a week or not at all (64.1%), while around one-third (35.5%) reported that they studied at least once a week or more frequently. More than half of the respondents (55.4%) had spent time reading once a week or more frequently during the previous month. In regard to helping their parents, 59.5% of respondents helped with house chores at least once a week, whereas 43.5% of respondents helped in agricultural or business activities at least once a week. The young people from vulnerable groups responded much more frequently that they had watched television for more than 5 hours a day over the previous seven days. When it came to other activities such as going to the cinema or to concerts and similar these respondents stated significantly more often, compared to the general population, that they did not engage in such activities (see Table 8).
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