The line graph compares the proportion of visitors watching cinema once a month or more among different age cohorts between 1982 and 2003.
Overall, the spectators percentage for all age groups showed an upward trajectory, albeit to varying degrees, with young adults aged 15-24 witnessing the most pronounced growth. Visitors who aged 35 and over consistently recorded the lowest volumes, while 15-24 aged cohorts had substantially higher figures throughout the period.
In 1984, the proportion of participants aged 15-24 held the largest share, at around 20%, followed by the youngest aged 7-14 at exactly 10%. Over a decade, the trend for 15-24 years old increased to roughly 30%, just before fluctuating noticeably between 1994 and 1999 and then reaching its peak at 58% in 2003. A similar pattern was observed in 7-14 year-old visitors, albeit to a lesser extent, having fluctuated around 15% until 1994, its figure experienced a marked growth to 35%. By contrast, both 15-24 and 7-14 years old declined marginally by 4 and 5 percentage points respectively in 2004.
As for the remaining age groups, the percentage for 35 and over aged cohorts had by far the lowest volumes of visits to cinemas, at 2%, trailing just behind 25-34 years old at 5%. The trend for 25-34 aged participants rose from 5% to a peak of 31% in 2003 and then dropped to a quarter, whereas 35 and over aged spectators remained stable until 1997, before reaching to roughly 12% by the end of the period.