The bar charts compare the number of minutes that people from various age groups spent on reading for pleasure and listening to music in New Zealand.
Overall, almost people spend more time in a day on listening to music than on reading for pleasure. It is also noticable that reading is seen an upward trend throughout the age spectrum while listening to music is more popular for the young and elderly.
In terms of reading, people aged 14-24 spend only one-third of an hour per day for this activity, while the figure for 25-32 age group is around 35 minutes. The number that people spend on reading continually increase throughout older age, approximately 45 minutes and 50 minutes per day, respectively, 33-42 age group and 42-55 age group. Additionally, reading is recorded to be done mostly in the 56-65+ age group, with 70 minutes every day.
Regarding to listening, in contrast, the youngest is the group spent most time for this activity over others, exactly 80 minutes per day. This is followed by 56-65+ and 25-32 age group, recorded at around 75 minutes and 1 hour. Moreover, listening to music tend to not popular between people aged 33-42, as they spend only about 45 minutes per day for its, which is the lowest data among the age spectrum.
