The line chart compares the popularity rates of various activites at one Australian social centre in Melbourne through their numbers of participants from 2000 to 2020.
It is clear that while table tennis and musical performances attracted more participants over the period, other activities did not. Additionally, although table tennis rose their popularity at the greatest speed, the film still held the highest popularity rate over the 20 years, during which no one engaged in musical performances initially.
Table tennis and musical performances had increased their fame from 2000 to 2020. In 2000, table tennis attracted just approximatley 15 participants, which increased by one-third over the next decade. By 2020, its figure had shown significant growth to about 54 participants in the end, letting table tennis become the second most popular activity, suprassing martial arts and amateur dramatics. Furthermore, musical performances only began attracting participants in 2010, at 10 people, but then gradually had one-fourth increasing participants per year after that, and finished with around 15 people.
Meanwhile, while the film club and martial arts kept their attendance numbers, amateur dramatics lost the most. The most popular activity – film club, started with 64 attendees, losing 4 of them in 2010, but then attracted more participants again in 2015, finishing at approximately 65. Moreover, the number of participants in martial arts fluctuated of around 36 people over the same period. Finally, about 25 people participated in amateur dramatics initially, and 5 more in the following 5 years, but then this activity had lost dramatically more than 20 participants by the end of the period to be the least popular.
