Band 5+: The line graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The presented line graph illustrates the data about how older generations in America spent their leisure time over the period of 30, from 1980 to 2010

Overall, it is obvious that the index for watching TV being the highest in the beginning, had marginal declining trend by the end of the given period, while hiking emerged as the leading category. In contrast, reading, surfing the Internet experienced slight increase over the period, showing moderate changes.

It is apparently seen that almost all activities had been increasing for first half, whereas going to theatre become less from 50% to 30% .Nevertheless it recovered and remained constant from 1990s to 2010s, reaching the lowest point approximately 45%,respectively. The percentage for reading saw dramatic rising after noticeable drop in 2000s.

In the second half,the index for reading, surfing the internet,theatre and hiking had increased in popularity. However, watching TV decreased to nearly 65%. The figure for hiking reached the highest point with 80% in 2010s.