Submitted 3 days ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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?
I’ve never seen one, but that does sound like it would be pretty cool
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.
“Not sure if I count stone-ing as a hobby but okay”
One of my hobbies is gunsmithing. If the category was “guns”, most of the people in there are not doing what I’m doing.
I don’t tell people I’m a gun guy. Either they yell at me over the gun or try to get me to join their militia.
I just like 1911s and target shooting. I want to talk about springs not politics.
Acamon@lemmy.world 3 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. 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.