The chart shows the results of surveys in one African country asking teenagers the main reasons for using their phones between 2016 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

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pie charts demonstrate the final answers

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surveys in an African country revealing the main purposes of using mobile

phones

from 2016 to 2019.

Overall

people

used

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their

phones

for reaching

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to reach

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social networks were

highest

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and roughly

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half of teenagers throughout the period.

At the end

of the three-year period, the proportions of social networks and phone calls increased 5-6%. Despite the fact that there was a slight decrease

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social media usage in 2017, it

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increased to 56% in 2019. In 2016 and 2017, users for phone calls stayed constant at 15% before increasing to 18%, and 20%, in 2018, and 2019 respectively. The remaining reasons for using

phones

were sending emails and using digital cameras of their

phones

which

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decreased over time. A quarter of people

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phones

for sending email in 2016 which

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gradualy

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gradually

decreased to 19% in 2019.

In contrast

, digital camera users reached a peak

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13% in 2017,

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dramatically

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to 5% in 2019.