The chart below show the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008.
The two charts below display information about the
percentage
of adults who spent time
doing a variety of different types of activities during the working day
in a particular country between 1958 and 2008.
Overall
, employees people
in this
particular country spent the most amount of time
in the day
, in both 1958 and 2008, at work
. In contrast
, people
spent the least time
doing other activities such
as playing sports or setting up new hobbies.
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
, reaching 19%. Meanwhile, traveling
to Change the spelling
travelling
work
was the activity that took up the last
second percentage
of time
someone’s day
.
Fifty years ago, the percentage
of a day
people
spent at work
increased to 42%, while
the figure for sleeping had dropped to 25%. Moreover
, the percentage
of time
in a day
people
go out with family and friends had a significant dropped off, peaking at 6%, but more time
was allocated to relaxing at home (13%). the figure for traveling
to Change the spelling
travelling
work
had a little rose, reaching 8% over the period.Submitted by caelumz1121 on
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