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describe the table, how the unemployed spent their time in UK last year

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The given table compares jobless
women
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 and
men
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 in terms of which activities they did on a daily basis during the previous year.
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, it can be seen that house chores took most of the
time
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 from
women
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, compared to
men
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.
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,
men
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 tended to search for a job after they woke up from sleep, it took them 22% in the morning. Whilst,
women
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 spend almost 50% of the morning
time
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 doing housework, which is more than twice as much as
men
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, owing to the figures are 19%.
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, workless
men
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 were two times more likely to drink alcohol than
women
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, during the mornings, at 2% for
men
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 and 1% for the opposite sex. In the
afternon
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afternoons
men
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 predominantly spent most of the
time
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 watching TV shows, which took them 14% of the evening hours, and taking care of the garden,
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13%. When
men
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 were lying in bed for 1% of
time
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 after the noon,
women
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 not only did not sleep, but
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 did not exercise at all, because they were busy doing household chores, which occupied more than a quarter of the
time
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 at 21%, and buying new things in shops.
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, shopping took the same amount of
time
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 as going to the houses of loved ones did, at 17% of the
women
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's hours.
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The essay provides a detailed comparison between activities done by unemployed men and women.
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There is a clear introductory paragraph that sets the topic.

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