The table compares the proportion of people who used the bus for travelling for various purposes in the UK between 2009 and 2011.
Overall, shopping is the main purpose of taking the bus in the UK in the whole period and by the end of the period nobody goes to work by bus.
In 2009, shopping was the main reason of taking the bus in the UK with the percentage of 65% , The second purpose was visiting friends with the proportion of 19% ,and the other three reasons of taking the bus in the UK were day tour, work and study with the proportion of 7% , 5% and 4% respectively.
In the next two years , the amount of people who took the bus for shopping decreased to 56% in 2010 and 51% in 2011, studying and day tour increased to 9% and 12% respectively and remained in the same proportion in the two years and visiting friends increased by 4% in 2011 and the amount of people who used the bus to go to work decresed to 2% in 2010 and reached the zero percent by 2011.