The graph shows the number of hours per day on average that children spent watching television. The graph covers the period between 1950 and 2010.
From 1950 to 1960, there was a modest rise in the average number of hours children spent in front of the television set. This was followed by a marked increase from approximately one hour to four hours of viewing per day among children between 1965 and 1982. Over the next five years, there was a decrease. However this trend proved negligible as the viewing figure then rose again marginally, and it reached a peak of over four hours in 1995.
Between 1995 and 2010, there was another modest decline in the hours children spent watching television.
Overall, it can be concluded that there has been a significant rise in television viewing over the sixty-year period, though there is some indication that this trend may be changing.
The graph
shows
the number of
hours
per day on average that
children
spent watching television. The graph covers the period between 1950 and 2010.
From 1950 to 1960, there was a modest rise in the average number of
hours
children
spent in front of the television set. This
was followed
by a marked increase from approximately one
hour
to four
hours
of viewing per day among
children
between 1965 and 1982. Over the
next
five years, there was a decrease.
However
this trend proved negligible as the viewing figure then rose again
marginally
, and it reached a peak of over four
hours
in 1995.
Between 1995 and 2010, there was another modest decline in the
hours
children
spent watching television.
Overall
, it can
be concluded
that there has been a significant rise in television viewing over the sixty-year period, though there is
some
indication that this trend may be changing.