What do Canadians do most with their free time? Hint: It’s not listening to music

BookNet is a company that keeps tabs on Canadian book sales, much like Luminate does for music consumption. It has just released its annual survey and it includes this list of how Canadians spend their free time.

These are the top 10 activities we participate in at least once a day. (Data is for 2023)

1. Browsing social media/web (75%)
2. Watching videos/TV/movies (73%)
3. Cooking (69%)
4. Listening to music (64%)
5. Spending time with family (48%)
6. Exercising/working out (37%)
7. Listening to radio shows (34%)
8. Reading or listening to books (31%)
9. Playing video games (25%)
10. Listening to podcasts (18%)

Here are a few other notes:

• 52% of Canadians read between one and five books last year.
• We prefer print books to books on devices (59%)
• 14% of us spend between $100 and $149 a month on leisure activities.

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