Table 8:
Leisure Time domain. Changes, additions, or subtractions in Metric listed by indicator with justification of reasons for change.
Original Indicator | New Indicator | Original Metric | New Metric | Justification |
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Activity Participation | Number of family outings | This metric is added to account for the reliance of children on the family dynamic. In many cases an adult is required to get quality leisure time. | ||
Working Age Adults | Work | Adults working standard hours | Deleted | There is not a comparable replacement metric that assesses this concept. |
Adults working long hours | Longer hours of homework | Longer hours of homework would be closest comparable metric to long hours of work among adults. | ||
Kids working outside the home | This is added to assess the same general concept as the longer hours of homework. A part time job will place addition time demands on children and cut down on leisure time. | |||
Working poor | This metric provides a refinement to the leisure time concept by identifying those children in families with both limited income and job time constraints. | |||
Unemployed | This metric serves as proxy for the concept of limited income and potential stress leading to lower amounts of leisure times. | |||
Time Spent | Leisure activities | Time spent reading for pleasure | There are limited metrics to assess children’s time spent in general leisure activities. This measure provides a decent assessment of time that may be free from other responsibilities. |