The bar chart illustrates how many weekly hours teenagers from a town in the UK spent on different types of activities between 2002 and 2007.
Overall, the most popular activity over the given period was watching TV, while bowling was the least attractive. Going to pubs or discos, watching TV, and shopping all showed an increase in the time spent on them weekly. The other pursuits experienced a decrease, unlike watching DVD’s, which fluctuated.
Watching TV started off in 2002 with the biggest amount of time spent, accounting for up to 25 hours in 2001 and rose to a figure over 35 hours in 2007. Teenagers showed an increasing interest in visiting pubs and discos, by almost doubling the amount of time they spent on visiting these places, spending more than 5 hours in the beginning year and ending up with a figure above 15 hours.
Out of all remaining activities, doing homework received the most hours spent on it in the beginning year (more than 10 hours), but declined to almost half of its initial value in the final year. Also, the overall time that teenagers spent on sports fell drammatically, by falling from somewhere around 10 hours down to 2 hours. Their participation in bowling was shown to be the least attractive during the entire period, since teenagers did not even spend 5 hours on it and the number of hours only fell further.