The bar graphs illustrate the proportion of people who worked different hours in a week in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland in 2002.
Overall, it can be clear that the majority of people worked 35 to 40 hours and the least number of people worked 1 to 14 hours in all the given countries in 2002. Additionally, More than 16 percent of people were interested to work over 40 hours in Scandinavian countries except for Denmark with 9.6 %
There 19.4 percent of people worked 31 to 34 hours a week in Denmark compared to 11.5% and 11.6% in Norway and Sweden respectively. Regarding the people who worked 21 to 30 hours a week was 12.7% in Denmark as opposed to 16.3% in Finland.
Furthermore, only below ten percent of people worked in all four countries for 15 to 20 hours and among them, Denmark was at the top with 7.2% in contrast to 5.8% in Norway.
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