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The political transition in Hungary in 1990 caused value preference-change, and had a strong influence in the role of the physical activity in people’s lifestyle. Inactivity became part of our modern age with a huge development in informatics and computer technology and that process developed the „homo sedens” human type. Physically passive, inactive and sedentary lifestyle correlates with the increase of the weight and the body composition. Our research questions are, what is the structure of young people’s free-time activities and what the role of physical activity is in their everyday life. In our study we are intending to cover the investigations’ circumstances of Hungarian young people’s sedentary lifestyle and physical activity as well as the reception of the method, which was used by us. We pay special attention on the respondents, and the methodology of data collection. We review in details, how the 14-17 years of age male and female students have been selected. We also introduce and construe the principal investigation instrument, a self-administered free-time diary. The retrospective method is more commonly used in the literature, as it is useful to gather information from more people in less time however it provides less details and accuracy. Our method is more precise, as the free-time diary measures the momentary status of behaviours, while the recall method is limited to rely on memory bias.

Keywords: Hungarian Youth, Physical Activity, Sedentary Lifestyle, Free-Time Diary