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The line graph illustrates the changes in the rates of three ways people contacted a tourist office to get information in the United Kingdom in the first half of the year.

Overall, fewer requested were made by letters or email over the months, while the office received increasingly more requests from people in person and by telephone with the former overtaking the latter at the end.

In January, more requests were made by phone and by letter or in person. In more detail, 900 requests were done using telephones, while the figures for in person inquiries and the ones made by email were over 400 and nearly 800, respectively. Over the next two months, the number of direct asks and phone requests increased to 800 and 1000 with the latter recording a drop of 100 requests in February.

In contrast, a gradual decline to around 700 was observed in the number of written inquiries until March before decreasing significantly to just under 400 in May. Afterwards, this figure remained stable, seeing no changes in the final month. Meanwhile, the number of telephone requests initially saw no changes in April, yet then went up to 1600 in June. Notably, the rate for in-person requests maintained an upward trend, reaching a peak at 1900 in the end.

The line graph provides data on the shares of people living in Africa regarding their subscription to 2 different phones between the years 1994 and 2004. The data is measured in percentages per 100 inhabitants

Overall, drastically higher proportion of those individuals had access to mobile phones at the end of the period compared to that of fixed-line phone subscribers. However, the latter saw a gradual rise over the years despite being outpaced by the former in the last few years.

In 1994, subscriptions to mobile phones stood at only 0.06 per 100 individuals, while the figure for fixed-line was 1.7. Over the next six years, modest growth was recorded among both subscribers with fixed-line subscriptions rising to around 2.5 by 1999. Meanwhile, mobile phone usage increased gradually until 1999 before beginning to rise dramatically, overtaking the former subscription in 2000.
From 2000 onwards, the use of mobile phones experienced an exponential increase, reaching 8.8 per 100 inhabitants by the end of the period. Conversely, fixed-line subscriptions continued their slow rise, peaking at only 3.1 in the final year.

The pie charts compare the shares of 9 different sources of rubbish thrown away in an unrecognized country in the years 1960 and 2011.

Overall, more paper garbage and the waste from textiles were taken away in the first year, while food leftovers and plastic waste contributed significantly to the total waste elimination in 2011 . It is particularly noteworthy that much less wood waste was eliminated previously, compared to the opposite trend in the share of other pollutants. Nonetheless, no visible differences were observed in the proportions of metal, glass, and green waste, removed during those years.

According to the first chart, paper trash used to be the largest figure which was disposed of, making up a quarter of the entire disposed of materials in 1990. It was followed by waste coming from textiles with 17%, whereas the figures for food and other materials were equally 12% . Meanwhile, each of eliminated plastic, metal and green waste comprised nearly 10% of overall removed waste with an advantage of the last one, while glass and wood made up only 5% and 4% of that garbage.

In contrast to 1960, the data for 2011 shows significant shifts in the percentages of wastes. In more detail, reductions of 10% and 6% in the shares of paper and textile waste were recorded until that year, whereas the rates for food and plastic garbage rose to 21% and 18%, surpassing the initially dominant figures. Notably, the proportion of wood waste saw a twofold increase to 8%, whereas the shares of other pollutants declined to 4% in 2011. However, the percentages of disposed glass, metal, and green waste remained almost the same with the metal waste share increasing by only 1%.

The pie charts compare the shares of 5 different reasons behind the migration of people to and from an unspecified European country in the year 2009.

Overall, more foreigners migrated to that country whether for their accompanies & family or definite job while a majority of emigrants left their country for ready work and other reasons. It is also noteworthy that more people emigrated in order to study and look for a job compared to immigrants, whereas the lowest proportion of both immigrants and emigrants visited or left that country without any reasons.

According to the first chart, more individuals in 2009, immigrated to the European country for their family members or partners whose percentage was around 25%. This figure was closely followed by the share of those with a ready job offer (23%), while just 7% of immigrants relocated the country without a specific purpose in that year. Among the immigrant, notably, the proportions of students, job-seekers, and those with other reasons were 15% each, correspondingly.

Conversely, much fewer people moved to another country because of their family, while the rate for the others leaving their country for a certain job was quite higher, the shares of which were 15% and 38%, respectively. Meanwhile, about 13% and 23% of people chose to emigrate for the purpose of finding a new job and other causes, whereas only 7% and 4% of those individuals went abroad to study and no apparent reason.

The pie charts provides data on 5 different means of transport regarding their usage by people attending one university in the years 2004 and 2009.

Overall, cars, previously standing as the main mode of transport for those travelers, were used less frequently in 2009, while buses became more common, surpassing the figure for cars in the end. It is also noteworthy that cycling gained significant popularity among university attendees in 2009, whereas no noticeable changes were observed in the rates for train and walking.

As it can be seen from the charts, over a half of people (51%) used to travel to university by car in 2004, which was a leading figure at that time. This figure was followed by buses, the share of which was around 33% in that year. Meanwhile, riding bicycles on the way to university accounted for nearly 9% of the whole transport use, whereas the figures for train and walking were only 3% and 4%.

In contrast to 2004, the data for 2009 shows significant shifts in transport preferences. In more detail, there was a drop of 23% in the use of cars, while people started using buses more widely, the proportion of which rose to 46%, exceeding the figure for cars. Similarly, the percentage of people cycling to university almost doubled in the second year, while travelling by train and on foot experienced a minimal increase to 4% and 6%, respectively.

The pie chart compares the shares of 5 different resources used for producing energy in an unspecified in the years 1995 and 2005.

Overall, the country mostly relied on coal and gas in order to produce energy in those years with the former remaining the main source. Additionally, more nuclear and other resources in 2005 were used compared to the ones in 1995, whereas the opposite was true for petrol.

In 1995, coal, gas, and petrol were primary resources in electricity generation with coal sharing a slightly higher proportion. In more detail, the percentage of coal used to generate energy was 29.80% while the figures for gas and petrol were 29.63% and 29.27%. By contrast, nuclear and other resources had smaller shares in the manufacture of electricity (6.40% and 4.90%).

In the second year, the percentage of petrol in energy supply dropped surprisingly by around 10%, while the rates for gas and coal rose to approximately 30.31% and 30.93%, respectively, with the latter remaining the dominant resource. In a similar manner, nuclear and other sources saw an increase in their shares, accounting for about 10.10% and 9.10% of total energy generation in 2005.

The bar chart compares the percentages of Canadian boys and girls in terms of 4 different favourite leisure activities they had in 2010.

Overall, shopping was the highest figure as a favourite free time activity among boys while it was the lowest among girls. It is also important to note that more boys were engaged in sports and computer games than girls, while the shares of both genders were the same in music.

As it can be clearly seen from the chart, around a third of of boys liked to spend time shopping, the highest percentage to be reported in the chart, whereas just 5% of girls preferred this activity at that time. As expected, more boys than girls loved sports and found them as a favourite hobby ( about 25% and 10%).

Aside from this, nearly 15% of girls played computer games in their free time while the figure for boys approximately 17%. Notably, there was no disparity in the rates for both genders who spent time listening to music accounting for almost 20% of each.