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The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.

The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.
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The pie chart compares the proportions of
expenditure
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 done on five household categories namely food & drink,
utility
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bills
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, transport,
leisure
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 and others in the
UK
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 and New Zealand in 1980 and 2008.
Overall
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, it is evident that despite fluctuations in the spending pattern, people
of
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in
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 the
UK
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 preferred
leisure
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 the most.
While
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 in New Zealand the most
expenditure
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 was done on
utility
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bills
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.
In addition
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, the least
expenditure
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 was done on other expenses in both countries. Regarding
leisure
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,
utility
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bills
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, and other expenses, the spending of
UK
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 households on
leisure
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 accounted for 27% of total
expenditure
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 in 1980,
this
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 figure increased to 7% in 2008.
By contrast
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, a slight decrease of 1% was seen
for
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in
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 New Zealand’s household spending on
leisure
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 for the same period. The expenditures on
utility
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bills
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 for both nations increased by 2% and 4%, respectively.
Likewise
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, there was an increase of 2% for other expenses. Turning to food & drink and transport, we can see that there was a significant drop in spending on food & drink in the
UK
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 and New Zealand of 10% and 4%, respectively in 2008.
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, the
expenditure
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 on transport for both nations decreased by 1% in the same period.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words expenditure, utility, bills, leisure, uk with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "decrease" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
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