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The pie charts illustrate the yearly spending for Canadian households in the
year
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1972 and 2002.
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, in 1972 and 2002, most of the
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was spent on food and cars
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the least amount of
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was spent on computers and books respectively. In 1972,3% of yearly
income
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was spent on computers followed by books and restaurants at 7% and 8% respectively. Canadians used to spend 10% and 11% of their annual salary on petrol and furniture respectively. The second most popular item on which Canadians used to spend
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was cars and about 39% of their
income
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was spent on food which was the highest in that year.
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, in 2002, the percentages of all the items changed. Only 3% of yearly
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was spent on books
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the same amount of
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spent
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on furniture and petrol.
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, 11% of yearly
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was spent on computers followed by restaurants at 14%. Canadians used to spend 14% of their
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on food
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they started to spend
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amount of
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on cars which were 40% of their annual
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