The charts below show the amount of income per household spent on different items in the UK in 2010 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the amount of income per household spent on different items in the UK in 2010 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The presented table and pie charts compare data about how much money people earn and their spending on the 5 various sections in the UK at 2 points in time namely, 2010 and 2013.
Overall
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, it was important that the average income was reduced
while
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the average investment and the percentage of dairy products, fruits, and vegetables increased over the period of 3 years.
According to
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the diagram, at
first,
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income composed 29,000;
then
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it declined to 25,000 in 2013:
whereas
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, the people's spending on food and clothes rose from 14,000 in 2010 to 15,000 in 2013. The graphs demonstrate that
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Meat and fish, the main sector that the British spent money on, constituted just under 30% in the beginning;
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it decreased to 23%.
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, fruits and vegetables formed just over a quarter in 2010;
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, it climbed to 30% in 2013. Other food made up the same portion at both times at 18%.
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, clothes and Dairy products composed 15% and 12% in 2010, after that, clothes 2% fell in 2013.
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, another one 4% grew in 2013.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • expenditure
  • percentage
  • household income
  • categories
  • comparison
  • increase/decrease
  • stable
  • proportion
  • highlight
  • illustrate
  • fluctuate
  • markeda change
  • significant
  • trend
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