The table illustrates the proportion of adults from urban and rural areas who participated in four free time activities in 1990 and 2010.
Overall, more number of adults from rural areas engaged in every activity than those from city, the exception being reading in 2010, when their engagement rate was identical. Notably, the engament rate in animated play for adults in urban areas stayed unchanged, while play was the same with those in rural areas. Photography was the least popular free activity in 1990, followed by animated anime play in 2010.
Starting with 1990, 61% of adults in urban areas took part in reading, unlike the rural areas where considerable proportion of adults, at 71%, engaged in this activity. Meanwhile, 21% of adults in the city attended play, while the engagement rate was 26% in the countryside. Compared with city where only 10% of adults participated in animated play, 18% took part in this activity in rural areas. The engagement rate of photography among adults in rural and urban areas stood at 14% and 7%, respectively.
When it comes to 2010, adults in rural areas still became more active than those from the city, apart from the activity [reading], showing adults’ 78% engagement rate from both areas, making it the most popular activity. The participation rate of adults from rural areas in animated play declined to 14%, whereas the figure for adults from the city remained stable. In contrast, the enagegment rate in play among adults in rural areas stayed the same; however, the rate for adults in the city fell to 14%. Finally, photophy saw modest increase in engagement rate in both groups, with adults from city increasing from 7% to 17% and ones from rural areas from 17% to 24%.
