Lifestyles and social participation

Abstract

Music album sales in the UK were dominated in 1975 by vinyl albums (92 million trade deliveries), in 1989 by cassettes (83 million deliveries) and in 1992 by CDs (71 million deliveries). In 2008, digital album downloads represented 7% (10.3 million albums) of the total. In the 12 months to June 2009, less than half (42%) of people aged 15 and over in Great Britain read a national daily newspaper, compared with 72% in the 12 months to June 1978. In 2008, there were 164 million admissions to the cinema in the UK, compared with 1.6 billion at the peak of cinema attendance in 1946. Between 2007 and 2008, there was a 0.2% increase in holiday visits taken abroad by UK residents, reaching a record 45.5 million holiday trips. The proportion of pupils that participated in at least three hours of high quality PE and out-of-hours school sport increased from 4% in Year 1 to 65% in Year 6, but decreased in each subsequent school year in England in 2008/09. In the second quarter of 2009, 57% of adults aged 16 and over in England carried out informal volunteering at least once in the 12 months prior to interview, and 43% did some sort of formal volunteering. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]