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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main featureand make comparisons where relevant

The pie chart compares the proportion of people's expenses on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1958 and 2008.

It is clear that

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there were six categories, including housing, food, clothing, travel, entertainment, and luxury goods.

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, most values changed significantly. First of all, looking at the graph in more detail, the largest sales in 1958 were food, with 32 per cent,

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it decreased dramatically to 12 per cent in 2008. People spent the lowest money on luxury goods in 1958, but the value increased almost 10

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in 2008. The costs of housing maintained a certain proportion in these two years, and it surpassed the spending on food in 2008 and became the most, with 32%.

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, clothing expenses remained relatively stable in 1958 and 2008, with 18% and 16% respectively. Spending on travel grew from 8% to 17%.

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, the opposite trend can be seen when we look at entertainment, which declined from 13% to 6%.