The line graph illustrates information about differences in the number of people in term of their average working times, while the table shows how many holidays they still got money between 1998 and 2004.
Overall, the number of individuals working 32-45 hours are the highest initially but this position is for those who worked 16-32 hours in the final year, leading to the tendency of more and more people had worked less time than in the past. As a result, people were allowed to have more paid holidays.
As can be seen, 10.5 millions people usually worked 32-45 hours in 1998, followed by those who laboured regularly 16-32 hours and over 45 hours, with 10 and 9.5 millions people, respectively. However, the number of individuals that worked 32-45 hours remained unchanged in the following year, and decreased slightly to 9.3 millions in 2000 before increasing considerably to about 11.2 millions people in the rest of the periods shown. Besides, the count of individuals working 16-32 hours witnessed a significant rise to about 12 millions persons all over the time. Meanwhile, the figure for people working over 45 hours fluctuated between 9.5 and 9.2 millions in the first four years before falling down moderately to the bottom of 9 millions people in 2004.
Turning to the table, people had average 25 days in their paid holidays initially. This figure started to grow steadily to 30 days in 2001 and 2002, followed by a continual going up to 32 days and remained stable in the final years.