The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The provided
percentage
table illustrates the data related to how unemployed
men
and
women
spent their time a year ago in the UK.
Overall
, a glance at the graph reveals that in the morning the majority of
women
did
housework
,
while
men
searched for a job. The minority of
women
played sports and drank,
whereas
men
did nothing and drank. In the afternoon
women
preferred to do
housework
, shopping and visit friends,
while
men
watched TV and did gardening. None of the
women
stayed in bed and played sports. Now, turning to the details, in the morning a large number of
women
did
housework
, 49%. An approximately equal
percentage
of
women
and
men
did shopping (26% and 20%, respectively) and did nothing or were drinking.
According to
the data, the maximum
percentage
of
women
in the afternoon, 21%, reflected
housework
,
while
the minimum, 1%, applied to drinking. An equal
percentage
of
men
searched for a job and visited friends (12% and 12%, respectively).
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