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 proportions of
people
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's total spending in a particular
European
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country
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on different commodities and services from 1958 to 2008.
Overall
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,
it is clear that
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the proportions of
people
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's spending on housing, travelling, and luxury goods in a particular
European
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country
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increased
while
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those figures for food, clothing, and entertainment decreased over the period shown. Remarkably,
people
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spent by far the most money on housing. Looking at the information in more detail, we can see that in 1958,
people
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living in a particular
European
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country
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allocated a majority of their money for food, with 30% of the total, housing was close second to it, with about a quarter of the total ( 22%), followed by clothing and entertainment, with 18% and 13%, respectively, next was travelling and luxury goods, with 8% and 7%, respectively.
At the end
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of the period, after growing to 32% of the total, the figure for
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’s housing spending in a particular
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country
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led to the top, the second highest percentage was travelling and luxury goods, which was the same, at 17%,
subsequently
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, food and entertainment were 16% and 12%, respectively.
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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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