The bar chart illustrates the amount of time people spent on exercise each week, while the table shows how many employees did not go to work due to illness in the London and Birmingham departments in 2012.
Overall, most people in both departments spent between 5 and 10 hours exercising weekly. Besides that, absenteeism through illness was more common in London than in Birmingham.
Looking at the bar chart, Birmingham and London branches had almost the same quantity of employees exercising between 5 and 10 hours a week, at roughly 50%, which were the highest figures. The figures for employees working out more than 15 hours per week in both branches were lowest, at merely 10%. Around 25% of employees spent between 10 and 15 hours working out in Birmingham, 10% higher than that of London, at 15%. The proportion of employees who exercised less than 5 hours a week was about 35%, more than double the figure for Birmingham, at 15%.
Regarding the table, it is clear that absenteeism was higher in London than in Birmingham, with 380 workers absent due to illness in the former and 158 in the latter. 594 employees did not go to work for less than 5 days a year due to illness in London, ahead of Birmingham with 378 workers. However, both departments witnessed a smaller gap in the number of employees who were absent through illness for more than 5 days a year, with 242 for Birmingham and 248 for London.
