The table below shows the proportion of income spent on4 common items in the UK in 1998

The table illustrates how adults and children in the United Kingdom spent their income on four common items food, electronic

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,

music

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and videos in the year 1998.

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, adults allocated their revenue to food,

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children spent most of their income on

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and electronic

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. Adults spent 25 % of their income on food, with women allocating a higher proportion of 39%

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with men’s 14% . Both men and women spent only five

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on

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, but men spent slightly more on electronic

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9% and videos

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1.5 % .

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, children’s spending habits were quite different. They spent 39% on

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and 23%

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. Boys allocated 18% to electronics and 38% to

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girls showed slightly more expense on

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40% but less on electronics

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. Videos

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took a notable account of children's spending twelve

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, with boys spending slightly more

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than girls’ seventeen

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