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A person's worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seems important.

#person #status #possessions #values #honour #kindness #trust
The bar chart indicates the changes in travel habits of employees in a specific village in New Zealand for 1996 and 2006. Units are measured in
percentage
 and nine forms of commuting are shown.
However
, there is a form “worked at home”
that is
 non-commuting. Overall, it can be noticed that in both years, travelling to work by private
cars
 or trucks was the highest choice of commuters.
Furthermore
, it can
also
 be seen that the highest
percentage
 of commuters travelling to work by private
cars
 was registered in 1996. The
percentage
 of employed people that used private
cars
 or trucks to get to work was about 50% in 1996, after which the figure fell to around 36% in 2006, a drop of around 14%. In 1996, the
percentage
 of commuters that used company vehicles (around 7-9%) was not too different from the rate of people that walked or jogged.
In contrast
, use of company
cars
 rose to well over 10% in 2006 but walking, jogging and home working fell to 7% and 5% respectively. As reported in the graph, the use of the public bus and bicycle both rose from around 5% to 10% in 2006.
Lastly
, it can be declared that use of trains, motorcycles and other forms of commuting
were
Change the verb form
was
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 very uncommon with a
percentage
 of about 5% and 2% respectively.
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