The two pie charts mentioned above provide the information about various activities which were performed by adults in their working days, as surveyed in two different periods – 1985 and 2008, measured in percentages.
In general, employed people in this country spent the most amount of time in a day, in both 1958 and 2008, at work and sleep.
To begin with, when working is taken into consideration, it can be clearly seen that in 1958, one-third of adults’ day times were occupied by working, and surprisingly their working durations was roughly 17% as high as the durations used for traveling to work recorded by 2%. Moreover, similar to working, sleeping also stretches roughly up to one-third of the total day with 32%. Meanwhile, accounted for the last one-third were the sum of relaxing, going out, and other reasons recorded with 8%, 19%, and 6% respectively.
In addition, in 2008, the ratio of work in a day still remained as the highest priority, and seven times as high as compared to the least priority which were going out and other reasons. Moreover, the second highest percentage accounted for a quarter of a day was sleeping, and doubled the proportion of relaxing at home. While that, there was a difference of 6% in traveling to work compared to that of in 1958, recorded with 8% in 2008.