The given pie charts compare the expenses in 7 different categories in 1966 and 1996 by American Citizens. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The pie charts contrast the expenditure on 7 certain sections by American citizens in 1966 and 1996.

Overall

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, the figure showed that Americans spent more amount of money on bread and cars than other remaining items in both years.

Nevertheless

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, there were numerous changes in American people's expenses from 1966 to 1996. In the year1966, bread and car are two goods that citizens mostly used their budget to purchase, at about 44% for feed and 23% for cars,

In contrast

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, people are less likely to spend on 4 other sections with similar percentages, including 9% on petrol,7% on restaurants,10% on furniture and only 6% on books.

Likewise

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,computers were the

last

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expensed division by exactly 1% in 1966. In1996, the figures for car expenditure/spending increased by twofold at 45% compared to that in 19666.

On the contrary

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, the consumption of bread decreased dramatically to 14% and was equal to that of restaurants,which jumped and doubled since 1966. Meanwhile, the proportion of the two sections, petrol and furniture almost stayed the same , at 8% for both. Another visible trend was that computer expenditure surged to 10%

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that of books dropped to 1%.