At present, there is a point of view generally agreed by the Chinese and Western scholars that eld-erly prefer to stay at home, and more reluctant to participate in social activities.Based on the survey data from Chi-na and 14 European countries, this paper uses people’s living time as analysis object, non economic activities as research scope, dividing free time into three kinds with“individual activities”,“outside activities”and“social ac-tivities”.Using One-way ANOVA and Wilcoxon(Mann-Whitney) test as method, comparing different group...