I was wondering if there’s a site or database that shows how common different hobbies are in each country—like reading books, playing board games, listening to music, cooking, etc.

Does such a ranking or survey exist?

  • Acamon@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Had a quick search on Google scholar, lots of stuff comparing general rates of engagement with hobbies in different countries, especially linked to helping older people. Thiscompares some countries, and observes that both wealth and wealthy inequality lead to less engagement with hobbies (which is why the US is relatively low).

    I found this one that discusses how covid impacted different types of hobbies in various countries, but I couldn’t see a quick table of hobby prevalence. Just comments about stuff like cooking being more affected by covid in anglophone and Hispanic countries.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.

    Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.