Although students in Taipei like outdoor sports, they spend more of their leisure time enjoying activities that require little physical movement, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, a recent government survey found.
The survey on the leisure habits of Taipei’s youth conducted by Taipei’s Department of Social Welfare found that junior-high school students’ most common pastimes were listening to music (48.1 percent), watching TV (45.3 percent) and surfing the Internet (44.1 percent).
Yet when asked to rate activities based on their interest, playing ballgames ranked at the top, followed by listening to music and browsing the Internet.
Elementary-school students tended to be more active than their slightly older peers, citing their three most common activities as watching television (46.2 percent), riding bikes (43.5 percent) and playing ballgames (39.7 percent).
Ranked by interest, the students said their favorite activities were playing ballgames, riding bikes and watching TV, the survey found.
Compared with 74 percent of parents who thought their children use the Internet to find information related to their homework, 75.6 percent of students from junior-high schools and 80 percent of those at elementary schools said they use the Internet to play video games.
Just 53 percent of parents polled realized their children were playing online games when surfing the Web.
The results of the same survey last year showed a similar trend, the department said.
The survey this year polled 4,320 elementary and high-school students and their parents last month. No margin of error was given for the poll’s results.
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