You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in a country in 1950 and 2010. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below. You should write at least 150 words. Writing task 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in a country in 1950 and 2010.

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

You should write at least 150 words.

Writing task 1
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The pie charts illustrate the average
consumptions
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consumption
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of
family
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families
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in a
coutry
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country
in two different years, 1950 and 2010. It clearly depicts
that
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apply
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the changes in expenses of different household items in these two years.
Overall
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, there are 6 categories of household expenditures which are housing, food, health care, education, transportation, and
other
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others
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. Specifically, in 1950, the expense of housing took the largest part;
however
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, in 2010, the majority of
money
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the money
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was spent on food. First of all, we can observe the biggest difference
of
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this
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two pie charts is that housing
shrinked
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shrank
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dramatically.
In particular
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, people spent 72.1% of their budget on housing in 1950,
whereas
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poeple
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people
spent only 22% on housing in 2010.
Similarly
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, people's expenses on education dropped slightly from 6.6% in 1950 to 6.3% in 2010.
On the other hand
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,
other
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the other
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four categories increased
at
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in
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the same period. The largest part was
food
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the food
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which accounted for 34% in 2010;
however
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, it only took 11.2% in 1950.
Next
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, people spent 19.2% on
other
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in 2010,
while
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it only accounted for 4.4% in 1950.
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, the average expense of transportation was 14% in 2010 and it was merely 3.3% in 1950.
Last
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but not least, the budget
of
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for
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health care rose to 4.5% in 2010, which was only 2.4% in 1950.
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