How Norwegians use their time

We are visiting each other less now than before, and we are an hour more alone now than we were in 1990. We are also less at home than in 1980, and instead we spend more time travelling and in public places. This is shown by a survey made by Statistics Norway.

We are more alone when we are on travel than when we are in other places. We are more together with others when we are doing leisure activities than other activities. We are alone half of the time we are at work. Men are more alone at work than women are.

There has been a gradual tendency that we go to sleep later at night from 1980 to 2005. Television viewing has at the same time become more spread over the day and evening. There have been only minor shifts in what period of the day we have our meals, and when we travel to and from our place of work.
The use of the internet at home has dramatically increased.