The charts below show the proportion of people's spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1958 and in 2008.

The pie chart given illustrates the percentage of

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expenditure on various fields involved in daily items and services in a European nation from over a fifty-year period from 1958 to 2008. From an

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perspective, it is evident that the proportion of consumption of housing, food, and luxury goods showed an upward trend,

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a reverse pattern could be seen in the figures for other categories over the years shown. In 1958, the proportion of spending on clothing was the highest, at 32%. The data on accommodation and entertainment were lower, at 22% and 18%, respectively, compared to that of travel/transport and food, at 13% and 8%, in the given order. Luxury goods,

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, accounted for the lowest value, at 7%. In 2008, the percentage of expenditure on both luxury goods and food significantly increased to 17%,

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, there was a sharp rise in that of housing to 32%.

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, the data on clothing and travel/transport considerably decreased to 12% and 6%, respectively, in the final year.

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, the budget for entertainment underwent a slight drop to 16%

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of the period.