The chart below show the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008.

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different activities by adults in a country in 1958 and in 2008.

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, it is true that over the 50-year period, people have spent much of their time at work. Activities

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as travelling to work and relaxing at home have increased over the years,

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the percentage of sleeping and going out

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decreased.

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working is the activity which most of the citizens have spent the most over the period shown, being 33% in 1958 and reaching 42% in 2008. The figure of sleeping was the second of their favourite task in 1958, with nearly 32%;

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, it decreased to 25% after fifty years. The third favourite one was going out with friends or families, it had 19% of the day

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people joining in 1958, but it fell to 6% in 2008.

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, the number of resting at home and travelling to work

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risen significantly, with

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8%, 2% to 13% and 8% in 2008.

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, the percentage of playing sports or spending time with their hobbies has remained steady over the period shown, with 6%.