The graph shows the number of complaints made about noise to Environmental Health authorities in the city of Newtown between 1980 and 1996.

The line chart illustrates the

numbers

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of

complains

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caused by 4 sources of

noise

:

road

works, factories, traffic

noise

and

household

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. The data is accumulated by Newtown’s Environmental Health authorities, surveyed between 1980 and 1996.

Overall

, there is a similarity in the

number

of

complaints

made because of domestic and traffic

noise

. Even though the

number

of

complaints

made by

road

works starts at the highest rank, it ends up with the lowest. Interestingly, there is a fluctuation in the

number

of

complaints

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the

noise

from factories. In 1980, the traffic

noise

caused 300

complaints

reported to the officials, and

this

remained unchanged until 1984.

Although

it dropped to precisely 200

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in 1986 and

remain

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stable until 1988, it soared up, reaching 600

complaints

in 1996.

Similarly

, the

number

of

complaints

of

noise

from households started at approximately 500 in 1980, and it stabilized for 4 years. Even though it decreased slightly to 400 between 1986 and 1988, it surged to 1200 in 1996, the

last

year of the report.

Conversely

,

road

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work complaint

number

started at around 650 for

road

works, but it continuously dropped to merely 100 in 1996. Its

number

of

complaints

went

to

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the

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different direction

of

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those of households.