The provided bar chart shows the proportion of the USA’s population who ate in fast-food restaurants based on their frequency from 2003 to 2013. Overall, throughout the whole specified years, most of the Americans ate fast-food at a frequency of once a week and once or twice a month. However, the everyday and the never category became the least frequency that the Americans chose when it comes to eating there.
About 31 percent and 33 percent of people in the USA ate in fast-food restaurants once a week between 2003 and 2006, then the number dropped modestly at 27 percent in 2013. Furthermore, the once or twice a month eating frequency also represented a significant proportion of the US people who ate there, hovering between 30 percent and 33 percent respectively.
People who ate fast-food several times a week fluctuated between 17 percent, 20 percent, and 6 percent throughout the specified periods, while those who were eating a few times a year experienced a slight increase from 13 percent to 15 percent. The proportion of the “never” category and the “everyday” category, however, never reached above 5 percent over the specified years.