The pie charts given demonstrate how many hours a day adults allocated to do 6 different activities in a nation in a comparison between the years 1958 and 2008.
Looking from an overall perspective, the percentage of the day working adults spent for work was always the highest and rose gradually. Meanwhile, time for relaxing at home, hanging out with friends, and sleeping decreased markedly between 1958 and 2008.
In 1958, the amount of time people allocated for work accounted for 33% of the day, which was the highest proportion. Sleeping was also devoted time to when its percentage was just under 1% smaller than that of working. Besides, adults spent one-fifth of a day hanging out with friends and family. The remaining 16% was allocated to relaxing at home, doing leisure activities, and commuting to work, which accounted for 8%, 6%, and 2%, respectively.
In 2008, there were some remarkable changes in the time spent on those activities. Adults allocated more time for work in comparison with that in 1958, which made up for 42% time of a day. There was a marked decrease by 7% in the amount of time for sleeping between 1958 and 2008. Remarkably, time for going out accounted for 6%, which was under 3 times as large as this in the previous 50 years. Meanwhile, the percentage of the day adults spent relaxing and commuting to work increased by 5% to 6% over 50 years, and there was no change in that of time spent on other activities.