The presented bar chart illustrates the proportion of Australian children ranging from 5 to 16 years old participated in four different types of daily activities throughout the research period.
In general, it is also noticeable that the figure for watching television stood out the highest value among all the categories whereas the lowest figure was predominantly recorded for the percentage of children playing computer games over the given period.
To begin with the figure for glueing to the television screen, there was a marked difference between those belonging to the 5-8 age range and other older age brackets,. To be more precise, the youngest age group accounted for considerably over 90% while those in the age range of both 9 to 11 and 12 to 16 shared the same proportion of participants, at roughly 80%. An opposite allocation can be seen in the figure for reading, while children falling into the 9 to 15 age bracket was recorded to be at the top of the list, ‘at in the vicinity of 70%, 5-8-year-old children contributed just over three-fifths.
With regard to children between 12 and 16 years old, the figure for playing computer games represented the lowest percentage among all the categories, at in the region of two-fifths. By contrast, the quantity of riding bikes covered the higher proportion compared to other age brackets, at negligibly over three-fifths. A same allocation can be seen in the proportion of bicycle and computer games usage among younger age ranges .