The bar chart illustrates the average number of hours of free time per week between 1998 and 1999 for both men and women in different categories of employment

The bar chart illustrates the average number of hours of free time per week between 1998 and 1999 for both men and women in different categories of employment.

Overall, it is easy to notice that the amount of free time for men generally exceeded that of women regardless of the status of employment.

It is no surprise that the highest numbers of free time hours were enjoyed by those who were either out of work or retired (figures were the same for both categories) – males had around 85 hours per week, while females had slightly less at 75 hours. The next highest amount of leisure time was enjoyed by housewives (50 hours). No figure is given for males (househusbands), nor is there a figure shown for men who were in part-time employment to compare with the leisure hours of women in that category (40 hours).

Males in full-time work spent an average of 47 recreational hours per week, whereas their female counterparts were afforded noticeably less (35 hours). It is pertinent to note that even men who had taken up full-time positions had on average more free time (approximately 15-20%) than women in part-time employment.
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The line graph illustrates the number of visitors to and from the United Kingdom over a 20-year period from 1979. The bar chart gives information on the numbers of British nationals travelling to five of the UK’s most popular overseas destinations.

Overall, it is clear from the line graph that both trends witnessed an upward trend while France and Spain were paid the largest visits by Brits.
In 1979, the number of tourists from the UK was not much higher than
those coming into the UK (13 and 10 million respectively). By about 1985, the gap had widened such that British travelers had reached 20 million
while overseas visitors to the UK had barely reached 13 million. From that point in time until the end of the period, the number of UK citizens
travelling abroad went up almost linearly to reach 54 million. The increase
in international travelers welcomed by the UK similarly saw its most significant increase until 1990 (a 7 million increase to 20 million in five
years), followed by an ever-slowing trend over the final 9 years to finish at
27 million.
In 1999, there were similar numbers of UK tourists visiting France and Spain (11 and 9 million). The next three most popular destinations (USA, Greece and Turkey) saw far fewer UK travelers – between 2 and 3 million each.


The first bar chart illustrates the number of married and divorced couples in the US from 1970 to 2000, while the second bar chart shows figures for the martial status of adult citizens in both 1970 and 2000.
Overall, a slight falling trend can be seen in the number of marriages, and a brief rise followed by a gradual decline for divorces over the 30-year period. It is also clear that married people predominated at the beginning and end of the same period.

In 1970, there were 2.5 million marriages, and this figure remained constant until 1980, before falling gradually to 2 million in 2000. The number of divorces was relatively low in 1970 at 1 million. This figure saw a noticeable increase in 1980 to slightly more than halfthe number of marriages, before it declined along with marriages to remain at 50% in 2000.

Between 1970 and 2000, the proportion of the population who were married had dropped by 10% from 70%. The percentage who were widowed witnessed a much slighter reduction from 8% to 6%. In contrast, those who had never married or were divorced had risen from 15% to 20% and from 2% to 9% of the population respectively.

The three pie charts illustrate the amount of money in five different expense categories by a particular school in the UK in 1981, 1991 and 2001.

Overall, it can be seen that teacher’s salaries took up the major part of the spending over the twenty-year period, and the biggest change was seen with expenditure on Furniture and equipment.
Specifically, Teachers’ salaries started out at 40% of the total expenses in 1981, reach a peak at 50% in 1991, and dropped back slightly to 45% a decade later. Following a similar pattern was Resources (such as books), which went from 15% to 20%, and then back to 9% over the period. Another large proportion of the
budget was spent on Other workers’ salaries, but it declined steadily from 28% to 15% between 1981 and 2001.
The remaining two items saw the biggest relative changes from one year to the next. As mentioned earlier, Furniture and equipment was one of them. It plummeted from 15 to 5 percent and then went back up to as high as 23%. Insurance, remained relatively unchanged over the first decade, nut skyrocketed from 3% to 8% in the second half of the period.


The pie charts give information on the relative amounts of water used for three different purposes in six regions of the world.
Overall, industrialized regions tend to use the largest portion of their water for industry, whereas other regions use it mostly for agriculture. The proportion for domestic usage is relatively minor for all regions.
In Europe and North America, the two most developed regions, industry required around half of the total amount of water used (53% and 48% respectively). In
both of those parts of the world, agricultural use accounted for around one third of all water used. The remainder (15% in Europe and 13% in North America) was used for domestic purposes.
In regions generally comprised of developing nations, the main reason for water use was to grow crops. In descending order of relative amount used within each
region for this purpose, it was Central Asia (88%), Africa (84%), South East Asia (81%) and South America (71%). In all these areas (except for South East Asia, which had a 5% higher figure for industrial use over domestic use), households consumed the next highest, albeit fairly insignificant, amount of water. Relatively little was needed for industry.
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The three pie charts illustrate the average proportions of three different nutrients considered harmful to health when eaten to excess for four typical daily meals in the US.

Overall, it is readily apparent that the meal containing the most of the sodium and saturated is dinner, whereas the highest proportion of sugar is found in snacks. In contrast, breakfast contained the lowest percentages of all three undesirable nutrients.
Sodium and saturated fat have similar patterns of proportional uptake across the four meal types studied. They both have the highest figures for dinner (43% and 37% respectively) and the second highest for lunch (29% and 26%). The remaining
daily intake of these two nutrients is fairly similar for breakfast at 14% for sodium and 16% for saturated fat, while for snacks, there is considerably more fat (21%) than there is sodium (14%).
Sugar shows a completely different pattern with snacks being the biggest culprit -accounting for as much as 42% of the average daily ingestion of it. The remaining daily sugar intake was spread fairly evenly across the other three meals, though again, dinner contained the highest amount at 23%; then lunch, 19%; followed by breakfast, 16%.
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