The table graph illustrates the proportion of Australian residents attending cinema as well as
how many times on average they visit while the line chart below shows the number of average
cinema visits of distinctive four ranges of age from 1996 to 2000.
Overall, it is obvious that Australia witnessed an increase in the amount of cinema attendance in
the researched period, whereas, the number of visits experienced a downward trend. In
addition, people whose age from 14 to 24 years old seems most interested in going to the
cinema while the oldest age range, over 50 years old, did not keen on this type of
entertainment.
In 1996, there are over half of a number of the Australian population, around 62%, had attended
the cinema with 10,3 average visits. In the next following years, the percentage of the Australian
paying visit continued to rise steadily to about 72% and remained stable till the end of the period
despite the slight fall to 70% in 1999. In contrast, although the frequency of average visits had
reached a peak at 11.1, this figure decreased dramatically before reaching 8,3 in 2000.
Regarding the number of cinema visits according to age groups, Australian residents pay to visit
the cinema between 10 to 15 per years with the older old range visiting slightly less than the
younger age groups. All the age groups followed the same trend with the number of cinema
visits fluctuating from 10 to 15 till the end of the period.
Over the given time = throughout the period
Remain fairly stable
Follow the same trend
Stabilize = remain stable
Initially = firstly