The given line graph demonstrates the leisure activities of adults in terms of popularity in the United States between 1980 and 2010.
Overall, it is evident that hiking and watching television remained remarkably popular in the period given. While the popularity of watching TV has not undergone significant ups and downs, the percentage of people involved in hiking strictly increased. Despite several fluctuations throughout the period, all pastimes exhibit an overall upward trend, with the ending points showing higher percentages than those of the starting points.
Regarding hiking and watching TV, the popularity rate of these two activities remained the highest, with an exact 80% and roughly 65% respectively in 2010. In the beginning of the period, hiking was one of the least spread spare time activities in the US, with a mere 20% of the elderly. While watching TV exhibited the highest percentage of popularity, hiking took the lead after the 2000s.
Focusing on the remaining categories, all these activities experienced the most fluctuations in the period given. Whereas visiting theaters was on the list of most popular pastimes in the 1980s, its rate of fame became the lowest with approximately 45% of total adults. Moreover, surfing the internet does not illustrate any downward trend. In fact, its rate of increase in popularity surged significantly, from roughly 15% to an impressive 50% of overall adults in the US.