The table below shows the percentage of adults in urban and rural areas who took part in four free time activities in 1990 and 2010. Summarise the information and compare where relevant, by selecting and reporting the key features.
The table presents the share of adults participating in different activities during their leisure
time
in urban and rural areas
. It shows how much people
spent their time
reading, playing animated games, playing, and taking photographs in 1990 and 2010.
Overall
, people
in urban areas
increased proportionally more the amount of time
they allocated to these activities between 1990 and 2010, narrowing the gap with rural areas
. Whereas
reading, animated plays, and photography became more popular over time
, time
spent playing fell in these 20 years.
Regardless of the year, reading was the most popular activity performed both in urban and rural areas
; more than 60% of people
read during their free time
. Furthermore
, this
percentage grew
since 1990: 78% of Wrong verb form
has grown
people
read in 2010, whereas
61% and 71% did so in 1990. Another activity whose popularity boosted over time
is photography. Its percentage increased from 7% and 14% to 17% and 24% in urban and rural areas
, respectively. In general, three out of the four activities became more popular over time
. The exception is playing, which reduced
the number of Wrong verb form
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people
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Although
percentages tended to grow in both areas
, they did it even more in urban areas
. Specifically reading and photography increased more in these last
. As a result
, the gaps between these two zones decreased over time
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