The line graph provides information on how the proportion of older people who spent their free time on five different activities, namely reading, hiking, theatre, watching TV and surfing the net changed from 1980 to 2010.
In general, the share of all categories witnessed an upward trend with the exception of theatre over the examined timeframe, with hiking rising significantly and becoming the most preferable when the period was over.
Looking at the biggest rises in more detail, 20% of free time of older people was spent on hiking in the beginning of the period, followed by soaring to exactly 80% in 2010, making it the highest rate. The lowest free time activity was surfing the internet initially, making up a mere 5%, a figure then rose dramatically to about 14% in 2000 before seeing tripling to just under 50% in 2010. Starting at around 30%, the share of reading by the old saw a visible fluctuation till 2000, declining by 10 percentage points. After which the figure for it had seen a sharp growth to exactly 60% by the end of the period.
Watching TV, however, its percentage was almost 60% in the first year, and it rose constantly to 70% in 2000 before dropping slightly to approximately 66% in the final year. As for the remaining ones, the proportion of spending leisure time on theatre stood at 50% in 1980, before it saw a general decrease, with a low of 30% in 1990.