The bar chart illustrates the weekly time allocation of teenagers for seven different activities who lived in Chester between 2002 and 2007.
Overall, adolescents consistently preferred watching television the most throughout the six-year period, while bowling had the least preference rates. The time spent on going to pubs/discos and shopping increased over time; in contrast, the time utilized for doing homework, doing sports, and bowling declined.
25 teenagers preferred watching television in 2002, and the figure then rose steadily to over 36 in 2007. Similarly, the number of teens who choose to go shopping gradually increased from 7 to 15 during the time period given. The young adults who favored going to the pubs/discos were 7 in 2002, then stabilized at 12 for two years (from 2006 to 2007), before significantly growing to 17 in 2007.
In contrast, the weekly time allowance for doing homework, bowling, and doing sports dropped over time, from 11 to 7 for homework and from 10 to 2 for sports. The least popular activity, bowling, never had more than five people who preferred it. Teenagers who watched DVDs increased gradually to hit a peak of 17 in 2004, before going down to only 10 people in 2007.