Leisure: look who’s tuned in
Canada Day Special 2010
Quebecers spend less time on the Web than the rest of us, but are more apt to watch TV—supporting a homegrown star system that has long been the envy of English Canada.
| Physical activity reported by % of population | |
| B.C.: 60.3% | Newfoundland: 41.7% |
| Do you spend 10 or more hours a week online at home? | |
| Ontario: 30.8% | Quebec: 24.5% |
| Watching TV daily | |
| Quebec: 40% | Atlantic Canada: 31% |
| Alcohol expenditures per capita | |
| Newfoundland: $865.10 | Manitoba: $627.50 |
| Volunteering annual hours | |
| Nova Scotia: 183 | Saskatchewan and P.E.I.: 147 |
| Sources: Physical activity (ages 12+, 2008), alcohol (annual amount, 2009): StatsCan; Online (aged 16+, 2009): StatsCan’s Canadian Internet Use Survey; volunteering (average hours for ages 15+, 2007): StatsCan’s Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating; TV watching (average daily audience aged 2+ between Sept. 21, 2009-June 13, 2010 watching from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., as a per cent of population): BBM Canada via CTV | |
HIGHEST
LOWEST
| Physical activity (reported by % of population) | |
| B.C. | |
| Alberta | |
| Manitoba | |
| P.E.I. | |
| Saskatchewan | |
| Nova Scotia | |
| Ontario | |
| Quebec | |
| New Brunswick | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |
| Do you spend 10 or more hours a week online at home? | |
| Newfoundland & Labrador | 24.5% |
| P.E.I. | 25.5% |
| British Columbia | 27.4% |
| Alberta | 28.0% |
| Saskatchewan | 28.2% |
| Manitoba | 28.8% |
| Ontario | 29.3% |
| Quebec | 29.8% |
| New Brunswick | 30.6% |
| Nova Scotia | 30.8% |
| Watching TV daily | |
| Atlantic Canada | 31.5% |
| Manitoba/Saskatchewan | 33.4% |
| B.C. | 34.5% |
| Alberta | 36.0% |
| Ontario | 36.5% |
| Quebec | 40.5% |
| Alcohol expenditures (per capita) | |
| Manitoba | $627.50 |
| Ontario | $627.70 |
| Saskatchewan | $649.30 |
| New Brunswick | $656.50 |
| P.E.I. | $676.10 |
| Alberta | $712.80 |
| Nova Scotia | $749.40 |
| Quebec | $757.30 |
| B.C. | $790.00 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $865.10 |
| Volunteering (annual hours) | |
| Nova Scotia | 183 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 176 |
| New Brunswick | 175 |
| Alberta | 172 |
| B.C. | 172 |
| Ontario | 164 |
| Quebec | 162 |
| Manitoba | 159 |
| Saskatchewan | 147 |
| P.E.I. | 147 |
60.3%
56.5%
53.0%
52.4%
51.9%
51.8%
50.7%
50.0%
49.3%
47.1%
The full province-by-province breakdown:
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