The charts below show the proportion of expenditure by students, on average, at one university, in 2000 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts illustrate the percentages of students’ spending at the same university in 2000 and 10 years later. Taken as a whole, there were not many significant changes in the proportions of students’ expenditure over the decade,

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clothing decreased considerably

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utilities and eating out increased. The most noteworthy decline occurred in clothing expenditure. At the beginning of the century, clothing accounted for 16%, but it dropped considerably to 5% in 2010.

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another proportion that had some development is Utilities expenditure that rose from 21% in 2000 to 27% in 2010.

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, transport increased slightly

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by 1%. The category that had doubled its percentage was eating out. It made up 8% in 2010 of total

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.At the same time, a huge amount of portions of outlay did not have any changes at all. Parts like Sports and

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culture

, holidays, food

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drink at home stayed exactly the same at 17%, 5% and 29% respectively.