The pie charts demonstrate the statistics of employed adults’ time spent on a day for numerous activities in a country in two periods, especially in 1958 and 2008.
In general, most of the time people spent was working during a day in both 1858 and 2008. Remarkably, there was a modification that adults cut down on their sleeping time for different activities after 5 decades.
In 1958, working adults surveyed in this country spent 8 hours (33%) for working, which was the highest time spent of activity in a day. Following by the second largest portion of activity, the sleeping time of employed people witnessed at just under one-third of total time. Furthermore, the percentage of a day people spent going out with friend or family was 19%, whereas the figure for time relaxing at home was 8%. Additionally, people took 2% and 8% time of their day to travel to work and perform other activities, respectively.
Turning to the next 50 years, most adults spent more time working which experienced a considerable increase to 40%. The opposite was true for sleeping time, this statistic decreased to a quarter compared to the first year at 32%. According to the record, relaxing at home rose slightly by 5% and reached 13% in 2008. In contrast, time spent for going out with friend or family fell significantly to 6%. Last but not least, traveling to work and other activities shared the same percentage with 8% per each.