The given two pie charts compare the proportion of time allocated by working adults on some various activities in two separate years.
Overall, it is clear that both adults in 1958 and in 2008 accounted for the highest rate of working and sleeping as opposed to others. While the share of going out with family or friends was another noticeably popular activity in 1958, this figure then occupied the lowest percentage among other sectors after five decades. Additionally, the proportion of other activities such as travel to work, other interests and relaxing at home saw slight changes in 2008.
To begin with, in 1958, working and sleeping were extremely popular among young people. And, this figure made up for almost the same proportion of time spent on them at one-third and just under 33%, respectively. However, fifty years later, time allocated to working witnessed a significant growth of about 42%, whereas the share of sleeping declined to a quarter of the total time spending. Another major change occurred in the way young individuals spent on going out with family/friends, meaning that the figure for going out (with family/friends) accounted for approximately one-fifth of total time percentage in 1958, but ultimately declined to just 6 % in a period of fifty years.
On the other hand, other activities like playing sport/other interests and travel to work witnessed a slight increase by 2% and 4% respectively, whilst the activity called relaxing at home increased from just 8% to 13%.