The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Contained in two illustrations is information comparing the proportion of time

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took for employed adults in a specific nation to do 6 distinct daily routines between 1958 and 2008.

Overall

, working, travelling to work and relaxing at home witnessed an upward trend

whereas

the opposite was true for sleeping and going out.

Additionally

, the other activities remained intact. Looking at the chart in

further

detail, occupation occupied a third of the day in 1958 and rose rapidly to more than 42% in 2008.

Similarly

, there was a rise in the duration of relaxation and travel, from 8% and 2% to 13% and 8% respectively. Regarding the remaining categories, in 1958, a full-grown person spent 32% of his or her day just for sleeping but the amount of time for

this

was cut down by 7%. The same pattern can be seen in going out where there has been a significant drop, from 19% in 1958 to 6% in 2008.

In contrast

, the time dedicated to other leisure activities witnessed no changes throughout the timeframe which remained stable at 6%.