The pie charts below show the percentage of time working adults spent on different activities in a particular country in 1958 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below show the percentage of time working adults spent on different activities in a particular country in 1958 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The pie charts illustrate the differences in the percentage of activities of working adults in one country in 1958 and 2008. At the onset, it is obvious that in both years the most popular activity among adults was working,
while
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the least interested were travelling to work and going out. There was a slight decrease in going out,
whereas
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an increase can be seen in the figures for relaxing and travelling to work. The percentage of working adults was a third (33%) in 1958 and
this
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,
then
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, grew to 42% in 2008.
In contrast
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, sleeping declined from 32% at the beginning of the period to 25%
at the end
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. In terms of travel to work, it was the least popular interest in 1958 with an amount of 2%;
however
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, it slightly raised to 8% after 50 years.
On the other hand
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, the percentage of other interests was 6% in 1958 and
this
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,
then
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, grew to 8% in 2008.
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