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 two pie charts illustrate how much
people
in a certain European country are spending on commodities and services in two different time periods.
The first chart reveals that in 1958 about 32 per cent
, just shy of a third,
of people
's spending were
towards food. Correct subject-verb agreement
was
This
number, however
, did not stay the same and was decreased to a mere 12 per cent
in the span of 50 years. In contrast
, The amount that people
spend on housing went up from 22 per cent
to about a third. Making it the now the commodity is the most sought after, from its previous second place.
People
are also
spending more on luxuries as a ten per cent
increase in spending can be noticed taking up to 17 per cent
of people
’s total spending the same as how much people
spend on travel and transport which has more than doubled from
1958 to 2008 from 8 per Change preposition
since
cent
to 17.
Clothing is somewhat without any significant changes but the same can not be said about entertainment where there is a noteworthy decrease.
Overall
, total spending habits in this
country have changed some.Submitted by parsaj1381 on
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