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.
Sample Answer
The pie charts illustrate the average percentage of an employed person’s day spent doing different activities in 1958 and 2008, in a particular country.
Overall, employed people in this particular country spent the most amount of time in a day, in both 1958 and 2008, at work. Furthermore, there was an inverse relationship between working and sleeping over the 50 year period.
In 1958, working people in this country spent one-third of their day at work, followed by just under one-third of their day sleeping. Going out with friends or family took up the next largest portion of time in a day, at 19%. Meanwhile, travelling to work was the activity that took up the least percentage of time in someone’s day.
Fifty years later, the percentage of a day that people spent at work increased to 42%, while the figure for sleeping had dropped to 25%. Less time was spent going out with family and friends (6%), but more time was allocated to relaxing at home (13%). In addition, the figure for the portion of day that people spent travelling to work quadrupled to 8% over the period.
Estimate Band Score: 7.5
