The table depicts of the proportion of adults participating in different activities during their leisure time in urban and rural areas between 1990 and 2010. Overall, participation rates in reading and photography increased over the two decades, whereas animated play and play exhibited more various patterns. However, it is evident that urban and rural percentage converged for reading, while photography experienced the most substantial growth in rural areas.
In 1990, urban adults demonstrated the highest for reading at 61%, compared to rural adults at 71%, with rural areas surpassing urban by a margin of 10 percentage points. Conversly, by 2010, those urban and rural areas both a similar percentage of leisure activities. Furthermore, animated play had approximately 10% in urban by over two decades.
In contrast, animated play and photography had a low rates of free activities in 1990, while urban and rural areas a significant rising those percentage in upcoming era.
