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The pie chart blow shows the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts compare the average household spending in
Japan
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 and
Malaysia
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 in terms of five important categories in 2010.
Overall
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,
it is clear that
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 Japanese and Malaysian people spent the largest proportion of their budget on just three categories, namely food, housing and other goods and services.
Moreover
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, the percentages of transport and health care in
Japan
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 were double the figures for
Malaysia
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. In Malaysian households, the greatest proportion of spending was on housing, which represented 34%of the total expenditure,
while
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 in
Japan
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, the figure for
this
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 category was just 21%. Japanese householders spent the largest amount of their income on other goods and services, at 29%.
Meanwhile
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 the rate of spending
on
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in
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this
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 category in
Malaysia
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 was slightly lower, at 26%. In terms of food, the percentages of expenses for both nations were relatively similar, at 27% for
Malaysia
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 and 24% for
Japan
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. In both countries, the smallest proportion of spending was on health care. In
Malaysia
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,
this
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 accounted for 3% of the total household expenses,
while
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 the figure for transport represented 10%. These figures were exactly doubled in
Japan
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 which were 6% and 20% respectively.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words japan, malaysia with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "represented" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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