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

The charts below show the proportion of people’s total spending in a particular European country was spent on different commodities and services in 1958 and in 2008.
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The pie charts compare the total amount of
money
by citizens on various items and facilities in a special European state between 1958 and 2008.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the primary amount of the budget was spent on clothing in 1958,
whereas
housing took the second place.
Nevertheless
, in 2008, the most spent commodity was housing among people.
To begin
, we can notice that the primary aspect in which individuals invested plenty sum of cash was clothing consisting of 32% of the whole pie,
whereas
the proportion of wasted
money
on both luxury goods and food was approximately the same with just respectively 7% and 8% in 1958.
Moreover
, citizens enjoyed spending about 22% of their
money
on housing aspects. The travel and transport services required only 13% of the whole budget, and the entertainment consisted of just 18%. In 2008, it is noticeable that people decided to invest 32% of the budget on housing services and only 12% on clothing.
Likewise
, the total amount of finance was the same
on
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food and luxury by 17%,
whereas
just 8% of the whole
money
was invested in travel commodities, which is twice less than
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entertainment which had only 16%.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "whereas".
Vocabulary: Replace the words money with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • expenditure
  • commodities
  • services
  • necessities
  • luxury goods
  • trends
  • significant changes
  • expenditure
  • housing and utilities
  • summarize
  • highlight
  • primary trends
  • fifty-year period
  • economic growth
  • technological advancements
  • societal values
  • analyze
  • observe
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