Band 7+: The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Sleeping: 32% --> 25% Travelling to work: 2% --> 8% Working: 33% --> 42% Relaxing at home: 8% --> 13% Going out (with friends/ family): 19% --> 6% Other (e.g. hobbies, playing sport): 6% --> 6%

The pie charts below compare the proportion of time devoted to different actvities by working adults in 1958 and 2008 in a certain country.

Overall, the work accounts for the largest part of daily life in both years, while further largening in 2008. Moreover, the out of home activities have been replaced with home activities significantly by the end of the period.

In 1958, working and travel to work had a share of 33% and 2% of daily routin, while sleeping and relaxing at home constitued 32% and 8% of daily adult life respectively, indicating a relative work-life balance. Furthermore, working adults spent 19% of their time hanging out with their loved-ones, representing a preference of outdoors to indoors. In addition, other activities such as playing sports contributed to 6% of daily life.

In 2008, working and travel to work exhibited a percentage of 42% and 8% respectively, making the work to being involved in half of the day, illustrating a remarkable rise in working hours; while sleeping ratio decreased to 25%. Additionally, relaxing at home figure grew to 13%, while going out propotion dropped considerably to 6%, showing a transformation in preferences.Meanwhile, other interests or playing sports showed a slight increase of 2%, reachig 8%.