The line and table charts illustrate the cinema attendance in Australia and the proportion of people visited by four different generation cohorts, namedly, 14-24, 25-35,35-49 and more than 50 years olds between 1996 and 2000. Overall, all age groups fluctuated in the same pattern, with young people the highest and elderly the lowest in all years surveyed. Additionally, the regularity in the number of visitors has gone down while there was a slight dip in the movie’s attendance.
Regarding all 4 figures fluctuating in the same manner while having a slightly different number in each year. Adolescents appear to be the most interested in watching movies than other age cohorts where it exhibited at 15% in 1996 and reached its peak at approximately 23% in 1999 before plunged at 18% in 2000. The least appealing in movies is the elderly where they accounted at almost 10 % in 1996 to about 13% in 2000 which is the same as the later generation in 1996.
Concerning the total age group, above half of the population in Australia have visited the cinema for 10.3 % initially. Even though the amount of people in all age groups has increased by 10% in 1997 and the frequency of visiting has added nearly 1%, the rate of visitors has significantly decreased at 8.3% in 1998 and fluctuated from 8.2 to 8.3 % in 2000.
In conclusion, the total amount of cinema attendance, still people have been going in there less often than before. In addition, people seem to be interested in cinema annually for which figures fluctuate in almost the same pattern.4