The graphs show changes in spending habits of people in UK between 1971 and 2001. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the data.

The pie chart illustrates information about spending habits in the UK from 1971 to 2001.

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, the majority of people spent more on food in 1971,

while

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cars

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witnessed an upward trend, making it the most popular spending habit

at the end

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of the given period. Spending on books was the lowest over the period. In 1971, food

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nearly half of the total spending , around 44%. The second spending was on

cars

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, just under a quarter of people spend their money on them.

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was followed by petrol, furniture, restaurants and books at 10%, 9%, 7% and 6% in turn. Computers ranked the lowest among all categories at just 2%

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which was nowhere near as popular as

cars

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. Moving to 2001,

Cars

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showed a significant change in spending, which doubled to 43%, placing the first habits, followed by

cars

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, which experienced a noticeable drop to 14%.

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,

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the rest of the categories witnessed an increase, book sales

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declined to be 1%.