The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a body of 30 developed countries has the common characteristics of maintaining representative democracy and free market economies. The OECD collects a significant amount of data from the different involved countries with the aim of identifying good and bad social, economic, and political practices in order to solve problems and promote positive country development. Recently the OECD published some interesting figures in Society at a Glance 2009 – OECD Social Indicators that measures leisure in different OECD countries. They define leisure as “time spent free of obligation and necessity” and through survey, the OECD was able to reveal which country sleeps and eats the most.
This data was easily uploaded into Finder! and makes for an interesting map in Maker!. My friends and I all guessed that Spain was probably going be the leader in sleeping and eating because of the “siestas”, or midday meal and nap, we learned about in spanish class back in the day. Well, it turns out the French are actually spending the most average minutes in a day sleeping and eating:
Click here to view the map in Maker!. Please note as the OECD mentions: The available time use survey data for Turkey does not separate personal, medical and household care from eating and drinking. The Turkish figure is thus excluded. An ad hoc separation out of eating and drinking time based on OECD average shares would give a Turkish figure at around Italian levels.
Click here to view the dataset in Finder!.
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