The given pie charts detail information about how employees allocated their time in a range of activities in a certain country in 1958 and 2008.
Overall, there were noticeable changes in how working adults spent their time over the 50-year period. An increase was seen in the data for working, relaxing at home, travel to work, and other interests or sports, while a decrease was seen in sleeping and hanging out with friends and family. Moreover, working was constantly the highest, while traveling to work was the least time-consuming in 1958; in 2008, going out was the least done activity.
Regarding the data from 1958, working took up the largest proportion of time, being 33%, then rose to 42% in 2008. Moreover, a small increase was observed in the figure for relaxing at home, being 8% and 13%, respectively. While the percentage of sleeping was 32% in 1958, it then reduced to 25% in 2008.
About 6% of people spent their time on other interests and sports in 1958, followed by a negligible increase to 8% in 2008. Besides, only 2% was allocated for travel to work, making it the least time-consuming in 1958, but an increase was reported in the data for 2008, being 8%. Conversely, there was a drop in the time spent going out with friends and family, with respective figures being 19% in 1958 and 6% in 2008, which is reduced by about three times.