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Socioeconomic status has many impacts on the type of leisure that people chose to participate in. To elaborate, a study conducted in Japan showed that men with a higher socioeconomic status were involved in more travel-related and leisure related physical activity while those with a lower socioeconomic status got most of their physical activity because due to their work (Arao, 2015). The difference in the way the socioeconomic classes participate is a physical activity could be due to a number of factors. Firstly, people in a lower socioeconomic class are not always able to afford to participate in leisure activities such as travel since it could be costly. Secondly, people of lower socioeconomic status tend to hold more than one job (Sauter

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