CHARACTERISTICS OF CITIZENS' LEISURE TIME USE ON WEEKENDS IN DALIAN CITY
基于大连市民活动日志调查，比较工作日与周末休闲时间特征，发现周末休闲时间增至工作日2.5倍，户外活动增多，但多数休闲仍在家完成，且受教育程度高者更倾向外出。
Recently many disciples have growing interest in the research on time-space characteristics of citizens' leisure activities, such as tourism,geography and sociology.Based on the activity diary survey of Dalian citizens, this article focuses on geographic method. The activity diary survey divides everyday activities into seven types-work,sleep,housework,privacy, shopping,moving and entertainment. The time used on entertainment activities is so defined as leisure time in this article. Leisure activities consist of two types-passing the time and enriching oneself. With the concepts, we compare the charactaristics of Dalian citizens' leisure activities on working days and weekends. On working day, citizens' leisure time is short and the mass leisure time is after supper. Citizens complete most activities at home. While on weekends, citizens' leisure time increases to 2.5 times as that on working day, and the percent of outdoor activity also grows.More citizens go out by motor-driven vehicles than on foot. The outdoor activity patterns of long leisure time are as follows:(1)shopping in the morning, entertaining at home in the left time; (2)visiting relatives and friends on the day; (3)playing in the park in the morning, entertainment at home in the left time. Then the characteristics of leisure time on weekends are elaborated.(1)The majority of leisure activity are completed at home, and enriching oneself is the main purpose of outdoor activity; the sex difference is evident. (2)As the age grows, the figure of trip index tend to decrease, but the activity type is similar at home, different outside.(3)The higher citizens have education, the more persons go out; blue-collar's percent of outdoor activity is fewer than white-collar's. All these characteristics are the effects of individual, social and spatial character. Meanwhile, we analyze the interrelation of citizens' social character and their leisure time use,especially choice of activity type. There exists hardly any strong interrelation. To make citizens' time distribation more perceivable, we draw case activity-paths with the methods of time geography. In the end we put forward that spatial characteristics and analysis of synthetical index of time amount are the focuses of our further research. We hope that all above provides basic knowledge for urban leisure planning.