The chart below gives information about the household percentage of spending on essential goods in China for the years 1995 and 2011 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The two pie graphs show differences in Chinese
household
spending in four essential categories
. These categories
are marked as percentages of total spending, with differences in spending for 1995 and 2011.
Food
and clothing remained the largest categories
in both
years, with medicine
and household
goods remaining the smallest. Nonetheless
, there were measurable changes in all four categories
over the years. Changes to the household
budget shares of food
and medicine
were particularly noticeable.
Both
of the top two categories
, clothing and food
, shrank during this
16-year period. Clothing lost just 1% of its share, going from 19% to 18%, while
food
dropped more dramatically, starting at 68% but losing 9 points of share by 2011.
In both
1995 and 2011, medicine
and household
goods represented the lowest and second-lowest spending categories
, respectively. Still, both
gained a larger share of household
spending in China by 2011. Medicine
jumped 7 points from 4% to 11%, while
household
goods made a smaller but still-noticeable
increase from 9 to 12 percent.Correct your spelling
still noticeable
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