Category Description

This category captures time the respondent spends in in-home free time and leisure. This includes general indoor leisure (0970), imputed in-home social (0971), receiving or visiting friends (0972), other in-home social, games (0973), playing musical instrument, singing activities (0974), artistic activity (0975), crafts (0976), hobbies (0977), as well as relaxing, thinking, doing nothing (0978).

• 0970 GENERAL INDOOR LEISURE

  Category Description

  This is time in other types of active leisure and pasttimes.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time in other pastimes.
  
  1975-76: This is time in other active leisure.
  
  1985: The 1985 period comprises of time in other active leisure as well as hanging around.
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01, 2003+: Not available.

• 0971 IMPUTED IN-HOME SOCIAL

  Category Description

  Imputed social time is defined as time from original codes where the diarist reported to activity of the person with whom they interacted but not their own activity and time where no activity was recorded but other people were recorded as present. In the case of the 1975-76 and 1985 data, there is a code for recording the activity of someone else who was present rather than the diarist?s own activity. These cases are recoded as imputed social activity when they appear as either a main or a secondary activity. This activity is not available for the 1993-1994, 1994-95, 1998-01 as well as the 2003+ samples.

• 0972 RECEIVE OR VISIT FRIENDS

  Category Description

  This comprises of time visiting with or receicing friends.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time receiving visit of friends or visiting with friends.
  
  1975-76: This time is generally categorized as visiting with others.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Visiting with others
  Socializing with people other than respondent's own household members either at respondent?s home or another home
  Talking/chatting in the context of receiving a visit or paying a visit
  Watching another person do active leisure activities (for children)
  
  1993-94: This period is generally categorized as visiting under entertainment/social activities.
  
  1998-01: This is time visiting and socializing.
  
  2003+: The period includes time in socializing and communicating with others.
  
  Category examples
  Accompanying family while they run errands
  Accompanying friends while they run errands
  Arguing with family, with friends
  Entertaining family/friends
  Giving gifts to friends/presents to adults
  Greeting family/friends
  Greeting neighbors/acquaintances/other parents
  Hanging out with family/with friends
  Hugging or kissing family
  Hugging/kissing acquaintances/others, friends, neighbors
  Spending time with family, friends
  Talking to/with other parents
  Talking with acquaintances, with family, with friends, with neighbors
  Visiting with family, with friends
  
  2004+: This period includes the following examples as well.
  
  Category examples
  Opening birthday presents (with others)
  Opening Christmas gifts (with others)
  Opening gifts (with others)
  Opening wedding presents (with others)
  
  2005+: This period includes the following examples:
  
  Category examples
  Accompanying family/friends to look at family/friend's new house
  Visiting adult in nursing home
  Visiting household/non-household adult in hospital (2005-2007)
  

• 0973 OTHER IN-HOME SOCIAL, GAMES

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in social and society games.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time in society games or parlor games.
  
  1975-76: This is time playing cards, board games, social games, and puzzles.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Playing card games (bridge, poker)
  Playing board games (Monopoly, Yahtzee, etc.), bingo, dominoes, Trivial Pursuit
  Playing social games (scavenger hunts), "played games" unknown kind
  Puzzles
  Playing with toys
  Playing indoors or unknown where; "played a game"
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This period is generally categorized as playing games under recreation.
  
  2003+: The period includes time spent playing games:
  
  Category examples
  Playing board games/playing cards
  Playing computer games
  Playing games over the internet
  Playing Scrabble
  Working jigsaw puzzles/crossword puzzles
  
  2004+: This period includes the following examples as well.
  
  Category examples
  Hiding Easter eggs
  Hiding matzo (Passover)
  Hitting a piñata
  Spinning dreidels
  

• 0974 PLAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, SING, ACT

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in musical activities such as playing an instrument.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time in playing a musical instrument, singing as well as making music.
  
  1975-76: This is time playing a musical instrument, singing, acting, as well as non-social dancing.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Playing a musical instrument, (include practicing), whistling
  Singing
  Acting (rehearsal for play)
  Non-social dancing (ballet, modern dance, body movement)
  Pretend, dress-up, "played house," "played fireman"
  
  1993-94, 1995-94, 1998-01: This period is generally categorized as music/drama/dance under recreation.
  
  2003+: Not available for this period.

• 0975 ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in artistic activities such as painting.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time spent in artistic creations (sculpture, painting, pottery, literature, etc.) - generally categorized as art work.
  
  1975-76: This is time spent on doing sculptures, painting, and drawing as well as time spent on literature or writing poetry. This period also includes time in photography.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Sculpture, painting, potting, drawing
  Literature, poetry, writing {not letters), writing a diary
  Photography
  
  1993-94: This period is generally categorized as art under recreation.
  
  1998-01: This is time spent doing art.
  
  2003+: The period includes time spent writing for personal interest.
  
  Category examples
  Writing in diary
  Writing in journal
  Writing stories
  
  2004+: The period includes time spent editing for personal interest as well.
  
  2005+: The period includes time spent writing lyrics.
  
  2011+: The period includes time spent blogging.

• 0976 CRAFTS

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in crafts such as knitting and sewing.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period categorizes time in crafts as ladies? work (confection, needle work, dressmaking, knitting, etc.) ? generally characterized as ladies hobbies.
  
  1975-76: The period includes time spent on preserving foodstuffs, knitting, sewing, needlework, carpentry and woodwork as a hobby.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Preserving foodstuffs (cleaning, pickling)
  Knitting, needle-work, weaving, crocheting (including classes), crewel, embroidery, quilting, quilling, macramé
  Sewing
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This period is generally categorized as domestic crafts under recreation.
  
  2003+: The period includes
  
  Category examples
  Artistic painting
  Jewelry making
  Making holiday/other decorations
  Making pottery/sculpting
  Model making
  Photography
  Putting pictures in albums
  Taking photographs
  Wood working
  
  2004+: The period includes the following category examples as well.
  
  Category examples
  Dyeing Easter eggs
  Making Christmas decorations
  Making Halloween costumes for self
  Stringing popcorn
  Taking pictures, snapshots
  Videotaping
  
  2007+: The period includes scrapbooking or making a scrapbook as well.

• 0977 HOBBIES

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in hobbies such as collecting and repairing as a hobby.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This period includes time technical hobbies, collections.
  
  1975-76: This is time spent working on cars as hobby, repairing leisure equipment, collections and scrapbooks.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Working on cars - not necessary to their running; customizing, painting
  Working on or repairing leisure time equipment (repairing the boat, "sorting out fishing tackle")
  Collections, scrapbooks
  Carpentry and woodworking (as a hobby)
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This period is generally categorized as hobbies under recreation.
  
  2003+: The period includes time collecting as a hobby as well as other hobbies that exclude arts and crafts.
  
  Category examples
  Organizing coin collection
  Bird watching
  Researching family tree
  
  2005+: This period includes collecting/organizing stamps as a category example as well.

• 0978 RELAX, THINK, DO NOTHING

  Category Description

  This comprises of time in no visible activities such as thinking, relaxing etc.

  Activity Coding Rules

  1965-66: This is time spent relaxing, reflecting, thinking, planning, doing nothing - no visible activity.
  
  1975-76: This is time spent relaxing, thinking, planning, reflecting, doing nothing, sitting, other passing leisure, smoking dope.
  
  1985: The following are the category examples for this period:
  
  Category examples
  Relaxing
  Thinking, planning, reflecting
  Doing nothing, "sat"; just sat
  Other passive leisure, smoking dope, pestering, teasing, joking around, messing around, laughing
  
  1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-01: This period is generally categorized as thinking/relaxing under communications.
  
  2003+: The period includes time relaxing and thinking, using tobacco and drug, as well as waiting associated with socializing, relaxing and leisure.
  
  Category examples
  Breaks at work, unspecified activity
  Daydreaming
  Doing nothing/goofing off/wasting time
  Fantasizing
  Grieving
  Hanging around/hanging out (2003)
  Reflecting
  Resting/relaxing/lounging
  Sitting around
  Sunbathing
  Thinking (2003-2004)
  Watching husband assemble lawnmower
  Watching husband cook dinner
  Watching wife garden
  Wondering
  Worrying/crying
  Chewing tobacco
  Having a cigarette
  Rolling a cigarette
  Smoking a cigarette/cigar/pipe
  Smoking marijuana/pot/weed
  Using recreational drugs
  
  2004+: The period includes the following category examples as well.
  
  Category examples
  Hanging around/hanging out (alone)
  Sitting in the hot tub/Jacuzzi/whirlpool
  Sitting in the sauna
  
  2007+: The period includes lying around as a category example as well.