The Table Below shows the proportion of income spent on 4 common items in the UK in 1998.

The table illustrates the

percentage

of humans who spent their salary on

food

, electronic equipment, music and videos in the United Kingdom in the year 1998.

Overall

, adults, women and men used the highest portion of their

income

for

food

purchases.

Whereas

, children,

boys

and girls used significant amount for buying musical instrument or equipment. The lowest

percentage

spent can be seen from the table for videos.

To begin

with, Women used their 39% of salary to buy

food

.

While

adults and men spent 25% and 14% respectively.

Boys

’ expense was the lowest

percentage

for buying

food

which is 9%. 23% and 18% of money was spent on electronic pieces of equipment by children and

boys

and

this

was the highest

percentage

of

income

used for electronic products. Compared to adults, children,

boys

and girls spent the maximum amount on music products which is 39%, 38% and 40% respectively. Video game was the lowest amount used by the given category of people. In that

boys

spend 18% of their

income

and it was the maximum

percentage

used. Adult only expenditure their 1% of their

income

on videos.