European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes tuesday april 8, 1986 a study shows americans Are filling a lot of their Leisure time with sports and exercises. They re getting More physical in America a photo associated press a americans Are forsaking the old family picnics and sunday drives for a lot More Tennis jogging bicycling camping concerts and even birdwatching according to a study of Leisure activities. Many americans have become More physically Active during their Leisure time Over the last two decades says John Robinson a University of Maryland sociology professor who Analysed the data. Robinson who has devoted most of his life to studying How americans spend their time said he found a trend toward More specialized and More diverse forms of recreational activity and away from More general mass recreational  the study suggests that while Young people remain the most Active their Active level has dropped in some areas while older americans Are becoming More Active. This latest study is based on the National recreation Survey a study conducted by the census Bureau for the National Park service in 1982 and 1983. The poll based on interviews with 5,757 americans Over age 12, follows three similar surveys in 1960, 1965 and 1970. Most of the interviews in the new Survey were conducted in person although some were done by Telephone. It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 1.5 percentage Points. The Survey asked whether interviewees had taken part in any of 36 recreational activities Over the past year. Picnicking sightseeing and driving for pleasure remain popular but less so than in the 1960s. Forty eight percent of those interviewed in 1982-83 reported picnicking versus 60 percent of those in the 1965 study. Sightseeing dropped from 54 percent to 46 percent while driving for pleasure went from 59 percent to 48 percent. More vigorous activities have filled in the Gap. Thirty two percent said they had been bicycling up from 19 percent in 1965. Twenty percent said they had been camping a jump from 12 percent in the mid-1960s. Playing Tennis during the summer was reported by 15 percent up from 6 percent in 1965. Jogging was t even popular enough to be asked about in the earlier census Bureau surveys but the new Survey found 26 percent reporting they jogged or ran in the previous year. Robinson said that was a jump from 17 percent who said they ran away the hours in a roughly comparable 1977 poll. Even birdwatching and other nature study became More popular in the past two decades with 12 percent saying they have gone out to look at the Wirt ged creatures compared to half that percentage in 1965. While Many less Active recreations Slid in popularity one jumped substantially. Attending outdoor concerts plays and other performances went from 14 percent in 1965 to 25 percent in 1983. The recent Survey found that one major Factor in recreational activities had not changed younger people were in general More Active than older people. But there were some interesting variations. For example fewer Young people reported going swimming in the latest Survey while older americans reported hitting the Pool More often. Swimming among those aged 18 to 24 slipped from 75 percent in 1965 to 67 percent in 1983. Likewise walking for pleasure dropped from 72 percent among those age 12-17 to 51 percent in the new Survey while it Rose from 42 percent to 50 percent among those Between 45 and 64. 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