The bar charts illustrate the changes which took place in student spending in the UK from 1996 to 1999.
Overall
, expenses by those students allocated for essential purposes including accommodation, food, bills, household goods, Linking Words
travel
, children and course Use synonyms
expenditure
saw a decrease, except for essential Use synonyms
travel
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while
that for non-essential spending witnessed an opposite trend over the period.
Looking in more detail, accommodation went down gently from 23% to 20% but remained the second rank between 1996 and 1999 in terms of the payment students used , followed by spending on Food, bills, and household goods which Linking Words
also
experienced a slight drop by 3% from 20% to 17%. It is noticeable that students spent less by 3% on courses(a decline from 10% to 7%) Linking Words
while
more by 2% on essential Linking Words
travel
. Meanwhile, investment for children made up the lowest percentage of the total at about 1% in 1996 and was not presented three years later.
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In contrast
, there were moderate increases in non-essential expenditures, except for non-essential Linking Words
travel
. Entertainment had the highest figure for the spent-on category in 1996 at 26% of total Use synonyms
expenditure
, rising even Use synonyms
further
by 5% after three years. Linking Words
Similarly
, Non-essential customer items and credit payments grew by 4% to constitute 16 % of total Linking Words
expenditure
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although
spending on non-essential Linking Words
travel
underwent a 1% fall and stood at 3% of total Use synonyms
expenditure
in 1999.Use synonyms
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