The pie charts illustrate the average percentage of an employed person’s day spent doing different activities in 1958 and 2008, in a particular country.
Overall, employed people in this particular country spent the most amount of time in a day, in both 1958 and 2008, at work. Furthermore, there was an inverse relationship between working and sleeping over the 50 year period.
In 1958, working people in this country spent one-third of their day at work, followed by just under one-third of their day sleeping. Going out with friends or family took up the next largest portion of time in a day, at 19%. Meanwhile, travelling to work was the activity that took up the least percentage of time in someone’s day.
Fifty years later, the percentage of a day that people spent at work increased to 42%, while the figure for sleeping had dropped to 25%. Less time was spent going out with family and friends (6%), but more time was allocated to relaxing at home (13%). In addition, the figure for the portion of day that people spent travelling to work quadrupled to 8% over the period.