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

The pie charts below provide information on what type of activities, divided into 6 types,

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done by working

adults

during the day in a specific country in both 1958 and 2008. Viewing from an

overall

perspective, it was clearly evident that whether it was either in 1958 or 2008, the

adults

spent most of their

time

doing their jobs because they had the responsibility to do so.

However

, in 1958, they were less likely to spend their

time

travelling to work,

while

in 2008 the

adults

were least likely to go out or do hobbies in their leisure

time

. Looking in more detail, in both 1958 and 2008, most

adults

spent their free

time

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working in their office which was

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33% in 1958 and 42% in 2008, and it can be seen that as the working hours increased, the number of sleeping hours that they got decreased by almost a

third,

which were at 32% in 1958 and 25% in 2008.

Furthermore

, the

time

they need to travel to work grew significantly in 2008 (8%), which was 4 times as much as it was in 1958 (2%).

Additionally

, outside of sleep and work-related activities, in 1958, the majority of their

time

was spent

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hanging out with either friends or family, which was at 19%, but

this

number dropped sharply in 2008 to only

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6%.

This

might be explained by the fact that there was a rise in the percentage of relaxing

time

that they got in their free

time

from 8% to 13%

although

the rise was not immense.

Lastly

, there was no change at all in terms of the

time

that they spent on their hobbies.