The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts illustrate the average percentage of an employed person’s
day
spent doing different activities in 1958 and 2008, in a particular country.
Overall
, employed
people
in
this
particular country spent the most amount of
time
in a
day
, in both 1958 and 2008, at
work
.
Furthermore
, there was an inverse relationship between working and sleeping over the
50 year
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period. In 1958, working
people
in
this
country spent one-third of their
day
at
work
, followed by just under one-third of their
day
sleeping. Going out with friends or family took up the next largest portion of
time
in a
day
, at 19%. Meanwhile, travelling to
work
was the activity that took up the least percentage of
time
in someone’s
day
. Fifty years later, the percentage of a
day
that
people
spent at
work
increased to 42%,
while
the figure for sleeping had dropped to 25%. Less
time
was spent going out with family and friends (6%), but more
time
was allocated to relaxing at home (13%).
In addition
, the figure for the portion of
day
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the day
a day
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that
people
spent travelling to
work
quadrupled to 8% over the period.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.

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