The Empirical Development of Typology for Describing Leisure Behavior on the Basis of Participation Patterns

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Abstract
The paper suggests an alternative approach for formulating a typology of leisure participation patterns. Respondents for this study were provided by the Continuous National Survey which was undertaken by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago in 1973. Principal Component Analysis was used to determine the underlying factors of a given set of reported leisure activities. The leisure typology was subsequently developed from combinations of leisure factors. Core cells of the leisure typology, which accounted for most of the reported leisure participation patterns, were identified. After the leisure typology was formulated, three socioeconomic variables-age, income, and education-were identified by stepwise discriminant analysis as making a significant contribution to overall group differentiation.