The table below shows the numbers of visitors to Ashdown Museum during the year before and the year after it was refurbished. The charts show the result of surveys asking visitors how satisfied thay were with their visit, during the same two periods.

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visited the Ashdown Museum in the years before and after its refurbishments,

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the pie charts demonstrate the rate at which

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were satisfied with their visits.

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, it is evident that after the redevelopment, not only the satisfaction rates but

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the number of museum attendees went up. In the

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before the museum was refurbished, it had 74,000

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figure surged significantly to more than 90,000

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after. Before redevelopment, around half of the

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visiting were dissatisfied,

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a mere 15% of them were very satisfied and 30% satisfied. In the

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after, in comparison,

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reported more satisfaction, with the majority of them being satisfied and very satisfied at 35% and 40% respectively, accounting for well above 70% of the whole proportion. Dissatisfaction rates,

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, dwindled by more than 25%, accounting for 15% of the

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in the

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after.

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, very dissatisfied groups

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sharply declined from 10% to 5%. Notably, the proportion of

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not responding to the survey remained unchanged at 5%.