Band 9: The table below shows the numbers of visitors to Ashdown Museum during the year before and the year after it was refurbished. The charts show the result of surveys asking visitors how satisfied they were with their visit,during the same two periods. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given table illustrates how many people visited the Ashdown Museum, while the pie charts demonstrate the outcomes of a survey about visitors’ satisfaction throughout the year before and the year after renovation.

From an overall perspective, the number of visitors increased after refurbishment. Moreover, it is clear that the proportion of visitors who were very satisfied nearly doubled following the renovation, while the share of dissatisfied visitors decreased significantly.

Regarding the pie charts, the percentage of visitors who were very satisfied rose from 15% before the refurbishment to 35% afterward. The satisfied category also experienced a slight rise, increasing from 30% to 40%. In contrast, the dissatisfied group declined significantly, dropping from 40% before renovation to just 15% after. Similarly, the share for the very dissatisfied visitors halved from 10% to 5%over the same period of time. The proportion of visitors who never responded to the survey remained steady at 5% in both years.

According to the table, throughout the year before the museum underwent renovation, 74,000 people went there to visit it, while this number rose to 92,000 by the year after renovation.