The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The two pie charts compare online purchasing for four sectors including books, clothes,
travel
and film/music in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013.
Overall
, the vast majority of online shopping sales were from
travel
in 2003, whilst the situation changed in 2013 as film/ music became the main trend.
According to
the information shown in the graph, 37% of online shopping sales were from
travel
in 2003. After a decade, it witnessed an 8% reduction by 39% in New Zealand.
By contrast
,buyers spent more money on books and film/music in 2013 than in 2003 as their sales respectively grew to 22% and 33%. What should be particularly mentioned is that online clothing purchases declined 6% from 22% to 16%.
To sum up
, it can be
apparently
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that the online shopping habits of people in New Zealand had a dramatic difference between 2003 and 2013 especially in the sector of
travel
.
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Vocabulary: Replace the words travel with synonyms.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Retail sectors
  • Online shopping sales
  • Market share
  • E-commerce
  • Growth trend
  • Significant change/increase/decrease
  • Percentage points
  • Consumer behavior
  • Shopping patterns
  • Revenue
  • Electronic goods
  • Clothing and footwear
  • Health and beauty products
  • Digital downloading
  • Leisure and personal goods
  • Sector analysis
  • Year-over-year comparison
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