We defined leisure-time noise exposure as a positive response to either of two questions assessing noise exposure from firearms (outside of work) or other noise sources, for an average of at least once per month for a year.
But a related part of the problem is defining leisure itself.
How do you define leisure? A. Believe it or not, the field of leisure studies is a big area of academic study.
Within this small group of funds, portfolio managers define leisure stocks in very different ways.
As John Wilson and others have noted, it is difficult to define leisure.
Outdoor leisure activity was defined as leisure activities outside the home such as a visit to a park, movie theatre, among others at least twice a month excluding visit to health centers for medical treatment.
Mr Scase added that newspapers should think in terms of "purchasing clusters" defined by leisure activities, and do more to find out what those were.
Holdings include Hormel Foods, maker of hams and Spam, which are defined as "leisure related because we like to go places and eat for entertainment, like we go camping and take food along," explains Craig Callahan Craig Callahan, chief investment officer of Meridian Investment Management, which advises ICON funds.
Subjects were identified as current smokers if they had smoked within 1 year of the survey date and physical inactivity was defined as leisure time activity less than 4 h weekly and predominantly sedentary work.
The first and broadest defines leisure as a style of behavior that may occur even at work, the second defines it as any non-work activity; the third further excludes family and household obligations; and, finally, the narrowest defines leisure as activities dedicated to self-fulfillment.
In the present study, physical activity was defined as leisure-time physical activity [ 34].
