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Together with attending school, spending leisure time both together with and apart from the family is a major life domain for 6- to 11-year old children. It offers opportunities to gain important experiences and acquire knowledge beyond that at school. The 2007 and 2010 Child Studies have already shown how strongly leisure time differs according to not only age group and social class but also personal dispositions. To make the different patterns of leisure activities easier to grasp, we developed a leisure typology (Leven and Schneekloth 2007) that permits a more detailed analysis of the specific preferences of media consumers, normal leisure users, and all-rounders.
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The group of 6- to 7-year-olds was not included in these analyses, because it was not surveyed in 2007, making a direct comparison across all children impossible.
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This question has been posed only since the 2010 Child Study that also surveyed 6- to 7-year-old children. This permits a comparison of trends across age groups.
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Nonparametric test: Spearman’s correlation coefficient significant on the 5% level.
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Relations reported here are statistically significant on the 5% level.
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To ensure comparability, only the trend calculations were included for 8- to 11-year-olds covering the years 2007, 2010, and 2013.
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We have surveyed 6- to 7-year-olds only since 2010. However, the increase in memberships identified here could be ascertained independent of age.
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Because of the low number of cases of regular Internet users in the group of 6- to 7-year-olds (29 cases), we report no frequencies for the youngest age group here.
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Nonparametric test: Spearman’s correlation coefficient significant on the 5% level.
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Jänsch, A., Schneekloth, U. (2017). Leisure Time: Varied and Colorful, but Not For All Children. In: Andresen, S., Fegter, S., Hurrelmann, K., Schneekloth, U. (eds) Well-being, Poverty and Justice from a Child’s Perspective. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57574-2_5
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