The bar chart illustrates the number of hours adolescents spent on several activities in the town of Chester in the UK from 2002 to 2007.
It can be seen that,overall,the most popular activity among teenagers was watching television and the least popular was bowling. Notably ,the activities of going to pubs, watching TV and shopping rose, while doing homework,doing sports, watching DVDs and bowling declined over the time.
Looking at the chart in more detail, the categories of going to pubs and shopping accounted for around 8 and 7 hours per week in the first year,then both figures climbed gradually to 17 and 15 hours per week in the last year, respectively .Watching television, on the other hand, accounted for around 25 hours per week at the beginning of the year,it had increased slowly to 40 hours per week in the final year.
In contrast,the figures for doing homework and doing sports were approximately 12 and 10 hours per week in 2002, after that both figures significantly dipped by around 5 and 7 hours per week in 2007,for each.However,the figure for watching DVDs was nearly 11 hours per week ;and then it declined modestly to 9 hours per week in 2007, despite some fluctuations. The bowling activity started at around 40 hours per week, thereafter it plummeted gradually to 1 hour per week in 2007.