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Objective


Source: Our World in Data.


Objective

There’s only one thing precious than our TIME,and thats WHO we spend it on", says Leo Christopher.

Time is very precious and it wont come back once gone.And so people around the world are running hard to win the race. Here Time Management plays a vital role.Your priorities will define your schedule and so to analyse what the world is doing I selected a dataset which gives me Structure of Time with similarities and differences.
The data is taken from OECD, where respondents record the amount of time spent on different activities on a specific day. We try hard to manage our time effectively to keep healthy balance between “work, rest and fun”, and so there are some predictable patterns found in data.For instance,in the UK, people ought to spend more time working as compared to people in France; but on otherside both countries people report spending a similar amount of time on leisure activities.
On observing closely, there are many such facts hidden. Lets Check them!

Reference

Code

The survey data comprises of people from age group (15-64) thus its obvious to have high weightage towards work.
While working on entire data, a remarkable difference was observed in these six countries named Australia, Japan, South Africa, Italy, Ireland and South Korea. Lets dive deep into numbers.

Visuals on open source data

#PLot1 and 2 displaying statistics for Australia and South Africa
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#PLot 3 and 4 displaying statistics for Japan and Ireland
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#PLot5 and 6 displaying statistics for Italy and South Korea
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Summary
From the above plots we can say,
* Plot 1 depicts the people staying in Australia are maintaining the average amount of time in all chores and so we can say Aussies are experiencing balanced fun-work-entertainment life style
* Plot 2 shows that people belonging to South africa has highest sleeping hours of about 553 mins/day which is above average time.Thus leads an healthy life
* Plot 3 depicts that Japan has highest paid and Unpaid working hours,with lowest sleep hours and a legit null value for “care for household members”.It shows that people have to work hard sacrificing their sleep and personal life.
* Plot 4 visualises how Irish people spend their time.They devote their 60 mins of time everyday to care their household members which is highest among other 34 countries.This pours in the humble and empathetic shade of irish culture.
* Plot 5 shows figures for Italian people.It has got the lowest working hours of about 148 mins/day also the sleep hours are second most highest shows the people are quite chill, do believe in living life to fullest and are not bounded by work.
* Plot 6 is based on time spent by Korean people.The highest amount of time in education of approximately an hour per day is devoted by Koreans.And thus contributes to the future and growth of country.

Visual Outcome

The below plot shows the flow of time for each category which is grouped ,shaped and colored with respect to country

overall


The line plot shows the overview of subset created with selected six countries.Looking closely could see the labels denoting time in minutes for each task by each country.
To make view hassle free, facets are displayed with detailed barplots as below.

Main Plot


Conclusion of Story
-From previous plots(1-6), and the overall plot of 6 selected countries it is pretty clear that Sleeping for an average of 507mins is common among all.But country to country culture changes and so the time invested varies.
Zero minutes spent for ‘caring family members’ is horrifying fact in Japan.Thus their is lack of balance in life of japanese people.In contrast Irish people give maximum amount of time to family.
Italy has lowest paid working hours and comparatively high share in ‘eating and drinking’ activities shows “People in Richer countries can afford to work less”.

-The message i would like to give from these data is:

  • Life is not a Race nor a competition but a beautiful journey.The “Work-Life” balance is the mantra to success.While working hard on our Aim, basic needs like Food, sound sleep and taking out time for family, friends and yourself is very important. So when you plan your activities,do not forget to maintain BALANCED STRUCTURE OF YOUR TIME..!