IELTS - Bar Graphs

 

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The chart below shows the total number of minutes ( in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995 - 2002.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates the time spent by UK residents on different types of telephone calls between 1995 and 2002.

Local fixed-line calls were the highest throughout the period, rising from 72 billion minutes in 1995 to just under 90 billion in 1998. After peaking at 90 billion the following year, these calls had fallen back to the 1995 figure by 2002.

National and international fixed-line calls grew steadily from 38 billion to 61 billion at the end of the period in question, though the growth slowed over the last two years.

There was a dramatic increase in mobile calls from 2 billion to 46 billion minutes. This rise was particularly noticeable between 1999 and 2002, during which time the use of mobile phones tripled.

To sum up, although local fixed-line calls were still the most popular in 2002, the gap between the three categories had narrowed considerably over the second half of the period in question.

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Q.2. the chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

Leisure time in a typical week: by sex and employment status, 1998 - 99

You should write at least 150 words.

Ans: The bar chart illustrates the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998 - 1999, according to gender and employment status.

Among those employed full-time, men on average had fifty hours of leisure, whereas women had approximately thirty-seven hours. There were no figures given for male part-time workers, but female part-timers had forty hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home.

In the unemployed and retired categories, leisure time showed an increase for both sexes, as might have been expected. Here too, men enjoyed more leisure time - over eighty hours, compared with seventy hours for women, perhaps once again reflecting the fact that women spend more time working in the home than men.

Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure, on average. There were no figures given for househusbands. Overall, the chart demonstrates that in the categories for which statistics on male time were available, men enjoyed at least ten hours of extra leisure time.

 

Q.3. The charts below show the number of working hours per week, in industrial sector, in four European countries in 2002. 

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons with relevant.

Ans: The given bar graphs compare the number of hours spent on work per week by industrial workers in France, Denmark, Sweden and the UK in 2002. In three countries, it can be seen that the maximum workers worked 36-40 hours, but in France the maximum workers worked 31-35 hours per week.

In France, approximately half the workers worked for 31-35 hours per week. The percentage of people who worked for 36-40 hours and 46-50 hours was 35% and 20% respectively. The figures for the rest of the working hours accounted for around 10% workers each.

Denmark and Sweden witnessed the highest proportion of people working for 36-40 hours, which was quite different from that of France. The second and the third place came from 31-35 hours and 41-45 hours workers (25% and 10% in Denmark; 35% and 30% in Sweden). The proportion of people working for the remaining hours was higher in Denmark than in Sweden.

It is interesting to note that in the UK, the percentage of people working 50+ hours was the maximum. Almost 50% worked 36-40 hours per week.

Overall, France was a country where the people worked for the least hours, where as the Swedish people spent the most time on work among the people from four different countries.

4. The graphs below four categories of citrus fruits and the top three countries to which these were exported (in thousand tonnes) in 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Ans: The given bar charts compare the top three countries importing different types of citrus fruits in 2012. The fruits given are oranges, lemons, grape fruits and all other citrus fruits.

As can be seen from the chart, oranges were the most popular fruit. More specifically, South Africa was the country where the largest number of oranges were exported amounting to 1020 thousand tonnes approximately. This was followed by Egypt (500 thousand tonnes) and the United States, which imported the smallest amount (400 million tonnes) of oranges among the three countries.

Lemon was the second popular fruit in the four categories, with 500,00 tonnes imported by Mexico and 200 imported by the USA. The minimum amount was imported by Argentina (100,000 tonnes).

Grapefruits did not constitute a large proportion of the imported fruit. Turkey was the main country that imported grapefruits, while Mexico and United States imported 400,000 and 300,000 tonnes respectively.

The largest import of all other citrus fruits was done by Mexico. The other two countries only accounted for a tiny proportion of the whole volume.

Overall, the export quantities of different fruit varied among different countries in 2012.