LEISURE TIME

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 19

LEISURE TIME

Survey Of Use Leisure time means hard work for a teaching fellow and 45 senior students in the sociology department of the University of Canterbury. Use of leisure is the subject of a survey they began this week. Inquiries may take many weeks, results will be collated for examination by computer, and eventually a master of arts thesis will be produced. Mr Norman Blaikie is the teaching fellow who is supervising the survey and will produce the thesis. His work and that of the second-year students who are doing individual interviews as part of their training in research techniques has the oversight of Dr. C. H. Gray, senior lecturer in the department Taking a random sample of one in every 16 homes in part of St Albans, the investigators will conduct 320 interviews.

They will ask people what leisure time they have, how it is affected by their occupation and family circumstances, how they use it how it influences home life, education, and other facets of living, what voluntary, religious, and other associations they support and how time spent on them is divided. In this way it is expected to get a good sample of this aspect of modern society.