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Glossary of terms
Activity categories
Paid work
Unpaid work
Leisure
Self care
Paid work
- All time spent at a paid job
- associated travel
Unpaid work
Domestic work
- meal preparation
- baking
- preserving food
- associated cleanup
- indoor and outdoor cleaning
- laundry, ironing, folding and mending
- shopping
- household management
- gardening
- plant and pet care
- other odd jobs
- associated travel
Care work
- childcare (personal care, medical care, teaching, assisting, reading and conversation with, playing with, travel for children and unpaid babysitting)
- adult care (personal care, medical care and associated travel for adults within the household housework, cooking, house maintenance/repair, transportation, correspondence and care for disabled or ill adults living outside the household)
Volunteer work
- participation in professional or union organizations
- political or civic activities
- involvement in child, youth or family organizations
- involvement in religious organizations, fraternal or social organizations
- support groups
- coaching
- associated travel
Leisure
Passive leisure
- watching television or videos
- listening to the radio or stereo
Cognitively leisure
- reading books, newspapers or magazines
- general computer use
- writing letters
- hobbies
- cards and board games
- attending educational programs
Physically leisure
- exercise
- walking
- sports
- associated travel
Socially leisure
- socializing in person or on the telephone
- associated travel
Self care
- eating, sleeping, washing, dressing, personal and medical care, prayer, meditation, thinking, travel for personal or religious activities
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