Category Description

This category captures time the respondent spends doing sports, exercise and outdoor activities. This includes sports and exercise (0860), walking (0862), cycling (0863), outdoor recreation (0864), physical activity, sports with child (0865), hunting, fishing, boating, hiking (0866), gardening (0867), pet care, and walking dogs (0868).

• 0860 SPORTS AND EXERCISE

  Category Description

  Sports and exercise captures time in physical exercise and playing sports.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This includes time practicing a sport or physical exercise ? active sports.
  
  1975-76: The period includes time spent playing football, tennis/squash, golf, swimming, ski/water ski, bowling, ping-pong, Frisbee, catch, exercise and yoga. It also includes time in snowmobile, dune buggy, gliding, ballooning, jogging/running, motorcycling, horse bike riding, as well as sports classes or training.
  
  1985: This is time in active sports and outdoors. The following are the category examples in addition to the ones mentioned for the 1975-76 period:
  
  Category examples
  Basketball, baseball, volleyball, hockey, soccer, field hockey
  Paddleball
  Golf, miniature golf
  Ice skating, sledding, roller skating
  Bowling, pool, ping-pong, pinball
  Frisbee, catch
  Exercises, yoga, weightlifting
  Judo, boxing, wrestling
  Gymnastics
  Watching another person do active leisure activities
  
  1993-94: This is time in active sports and exercise.
  
  2003+: The period includes time in the following category examples:
  
  Category examples
  Doing high/low-impact aerobics, doing step aerobics
  Talking to aerobics instructor/ baseball coach
  Playing basketball, talking to basketball referee
  Registering for a bike race
  Playing snooker
  Shooting pool
  Canoeing, crewing, kayaking, rafting
  Sailing, yachting
  Playing duck pins/ten pins
  Mountain climbing, rock climbing
  Horseback riding
  Playing polo
  Steeple chase
  Fencing
  Fishing, Clam-digging, Crabbing, Deep-sea fishing, Fly fishing
  Talking to the boat captain
  Playing flag football/touch football
  Talking to the football referee
  Golfing
  Hitting balls at the driving range
  Playing the back/front 9
  Practicing putting
  Talking to the caddy
  Doing gymnastics, talking to the gymnastics coach
  Tumbling
  Using parallel bars, balance beam
  Using the pommel horse, uneven bars
  Hiking
  Playing hockey, field hockey, ice hockey
  Talking to the hockey coach
  Hunting deer/elk, ducks, hunting games
  Talking to the hunting guide
  Martial arts, doing karate, kickboxing
  Talking to martial arts instructor
  Playing badminton, handball, lacrosse, racquetball, squash, tennis
  Talking to the tennis coach
  Barrel riding
  Calf roping, roller-skating, skateboarding
  Playing rugby
  Running/Jogging, running a marathon
  Talking to race officials
  Snow tubing
  Playing soccer, softball, wiffle ball
  Using the rowing machine, Stairmaster, treadmill
  4-wheeling
  Doing motocross
  Drag racing
  Snowmobiling
  Stock car racing
  Playing Wally ball
  Walking
  Water sports, surfing, boogie-boarding
  Diving, playing water polo
  River tubing, scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, swimming
  Talking to the swimming coach
  Waterskiing
  Bodybuilding, lifting weight, stretching
  Freestyle wrestling
  Greco-Roman wrestling
  Talking to the wrestling referee
  Yoga, Pilates, talking to the yoga instructor
  Archery, ballooning
  Baton twirling, boxing
  Bungee jumping, cheerleading
  Collecting firewood for camp
  Cricket, croquet, curling
  Digging a latrine, discus
  Foot bag, hang-gliding
  Horseshoes, javelin
  Kite flying
  Paintball, ping-pong, playing Frisbee golf
  Pole vaulting
  Setting up camping tent, starting a campfire
  Shooting league
  Skeet-shooting, skydiving
  Table tennis, tai chi
  Target practice, throwing darts
  Windsurfing
  
  2004+: The period includes the following examples as well.
  
  Category examples
  Riding in a go-cart
  Water aerobics
  
  2005+: The post 2005 period includes the following examples. Another example "riding in or driving a dune buggy" was added in 2006 and doing cardio, unspecified was added post 2008.
  
  Category examples
  Playing in the snow
  Running a race/organized run
  Running cross country
  Riding stationary bicycle, spinning
  

• 0862 WALKING

  Category Description

  Walking mainly captures time taking walks for pleasure.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This includes time spent taking walks.
  
  1975-76, 1985: This is time spent walking for pleasure.
  
  1998-01: This is time spent walking in the 1998 survey. It also includes hiking in the 1999 survey.
  
  2003+: The period includes time walking as well as other times that were not coded but the respondent specified that he/she was walking in the "where" codes.

• 0863 CYCLING

  Category Description

  This is time spent bicycling.

  Activity Coding Rules

  2003+: The period includes time spent biking as well as time registering for a bike race.

• 0864 OUTDOOR RECREATION

  Category Description

  Outdoor recreation captures time in outdoor recreational activities.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1975-76: The following are the activities and category examples included for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Putter in yard
  Camping
  Excursions
  Picnics
  
  1985: This is time in excursions, pleasure drives, rides with family.
  
  2003+: The period includes time spent climbing, spelunking, and caving.
  
  Category examples
  Mountain climbing
  Rock climbing
  

• 0865 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SPORTS WITH CHILD

  Category Description

  This is time in physical and outdoor activities.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This includes time in outdoor games/playing and walks.
  
  1985: This includes time in outdoors playing, coaching/leading outdoor, non-organizational activities; outdoor activities with children including sports, walks, biking, and other outdoor games.
  
  1993-94: This is time generally categorized under outdoor playing.
  
  2003+: The period includes time playing sports with household children as well as non-household children
  
  Category examples
  Playing basketball with household child
  Riding bikes with household child
  
  2004+: The following were added post 2004:
  
  Category examples
  Teaching household child how to play a sport
  Teaching household child to ride a bike
  
  2005+: The following were added post 2005:
  
  Category examples
  Strolling with a household child
  Walking with a household child
  

• 0866 HUNTING, FISHING, BOATING, HIKING

  Category Description

  This is time in activities such as excursions related to hunting and hiking.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This includes time excursion, hunting, fishing, and hiking.
  
  1985: In addition to hunting, fishing, boating, and hiking, this period also includes time in sailing, canoeing, and camping on the beach.
  
  2003+: The period includes time boating, fishing, hiking, and hunting.
  
  Category examples
  Canoeing, crewing
  Kayaking, rafting
  Sailing, yachting
  Clam-digging, crabbing
  Deep-sea fishing, fly fishing
  Talking to the boat captain
  Hunting deer/elk/ducks
  Hunting game
  Talking to the hunting guide
  

• 0867 GARDENING

  Category Description

  This is time in gardening activities.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time in gardening when the animal is not present.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Flower or vegetable gardening
  Spading, weeding, composting,
  Picking, worked in garden
  Care of house plants
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This is time in plant care.
  
  2003+: The period includes time in lawn, garden and houseplant care.
  
  Category examples
  Adding chemicals to lawn, applying pesticides
  Blowing leaves
  Collecting eggs, honey
  Cutting the grass
  Digging in the vegetable garden
  Doing yard work
  Edging
  Fertilizing garden/lawn
  Gardening
  Gathering nuts
  Hunting mushrooms
  Laying paving stones
  Mowing the lawn
  Mulching
  Picking fruit and vegetables
  Picking up branches, twigs
  Planting
  Planting beans, flowers, fruits and vegetables, fruit tree, tomatoes
  Pruning shrubs
  Pruning tree
  Putting pesticides on lawn
  Putting snail killer around vegetables
  Raking leaves
  Seeding
  Sowing flower or vegetable seeds
  Spraying for bugs, spraying fruit trees/rose bushes
  Spreading mulch
  Trimming branches/hedges
  Turning sprinkler on or off
  Tying up tomatoes
  Watering garden, houseplants, lawn, outdoor plants
  Weeding (general), weeding flower garden, vegetable garden
  

• 0868 PET CARE, WALK DOGS

  Category Description

  This is time in animal care.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time in gardening and animal care when the animal is present.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Care of animals/livestock when respondent is not a farmer
  Care of household pets including activities with pets
  Playing with the dog
  Walking the dog
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This is time in animal care.
  
  2003+: The period includes time in care for animals and pets (not veterinary care).
  
  Category examples
  Adopting a pet
  Bathing/brushing dog
  Burying animals
  Caring for an orphaned animal or household pets
  Changing dog's water
  Cleaning the litter box/cleaning up after pets
  Clipping cat's claws/dog's nails
  Exercising pets
  Feeding a raccoon, astray
  Feeding birds, cat, ducks
  Feeding fish, guinea pig, horses
  Feeding rabbit, squirrels
  Feeding the dog, pets (general)
  Watering pets
  Filling the bird feeder
  Grooming horse, pets (general)
  Nursing a sick animal
  Petting animals
  Playing with animals/with the dog
  Providing medical care to pets
  Taking pets for a walk
  Tending a wounded bird
  Visiting an animal shelter to select pet
  Walking the dog
  Watching kittens/puppies being born