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The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below. You should write at least 150 words.

The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below. You should write at least 150 words.
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The bar graph illustrates how much spare
time
enjoyed
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 by males and
females
 of various employment
status
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statuses
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 in the
year
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years
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 1998 to 1999. It is clear from the graph that the amount of leisure
time
men
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for men
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 was higher than
women’s
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for women’s
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 value in 3 out of 5 categories during the given period from 1998 to 1999.
While only
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 the data for
females
 was shown in 2 units including employed
part
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part-time
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time
 and housewives. Looking at the graph more closely, one can see that the record of men
in
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employed
full
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full-time
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time
 had about 45
hours
 of free
time
 compared to the 38
hours
spare
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of spare
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time
 of women from 1998 to 1999. Between 1998 and 1999, there was a levelling off in the amount of leisure
time
 in unemployed and retired categories by males
anf
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and
females
 had 80 and 75
hours
, respectively.
By contrast
,
it is clear that
 only the figure for
females
in
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apply
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employed
part
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part-time
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time
 was 40
hours
 of leisure
time
 from 1998 to 1999.
However
, the spare
time
 of women in housewives was more than employed
part
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part-time
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time
 by 10
hours
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words time, females, hours with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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