United States spending patterns between 1966 and 1996 illustrated in charts below.
On the whole, most spending aspects in 1966 is food, which is 44 %. However, in the second chart (1996) cars were dominating, by 45 percent. Nevertheless, lowest spending category in two cases were books, 1 % and 6 % respectively.
Turning first to insiginficant patterns, in 1966 fyrniture, petrol, restaurants, books and computer in total is less than food, around 10 %.
In contrast, food a little more than twice of percentage of cars, about about 10 per cent.
The most of remaining spending patterns in 1996 changed marginally. Regarding, cars increased more noticeably, less than twice of it , totaly 22 %. In contrast, food fell from 44 % to 14 %. The books is close lower than 2 %, and it reduced by 6 times in 1996. The books, fyrniture, petrol, and food compared less in 1996. With regard to restaurants, they doubled spending pattern in 1996.