The table below shows the results of a 20-year study into why adults in the UK attend arts events

The given table illustrates different reasons for people's desire to attend art events in the UK. The data was taken in the period from the

last

20

years

to today and considered four different purposes,

such

as accompanying

children

, special celebrations, work, and the desire to see a specific performer.

Overall

, through the

years

, the desire to see special artists has been the most popular reason and always has a mark of around 56%, which means more than half of people in the UK are interested in

this

type of reason. At the same time,

according to

the results of the study, work and accompanying

children

have an absolutely positive tendency, and their percentage grows every decade. Only special occasions have a consistently negative trend. If considered in more detail, accompanying

children

was 9% 20

years

ago and increased by 6% and 9% in the points 10

years

ago and today, respectively. Approximately the same tendency has "work" , it started from the mark of 6% two decades ago and went up to 10% and 11% in the next two next 20

years

.

However

, it is the biggest indicator is only 2 per cent more than the smallest of special events.

Also

, the marks in the points of two past decades are much bigger than indicators of "job" and accompanying

children

in the same period of time, and got 27%(20

years

ago) and 20%(10

years

ago) .