Shown is data regarding the proportional expenditure per family on vital items in China in the years 1995 and 2011. It is clear that the layout on food as well as clothing saw a downward trend, whereas the opposite was true for medicine along with household goods. As for the degree of change, the alterations of food and medicine were way higher as opposed to the ones of the other two. For the record, although the drop of food was the most significant, this category remained on the top of the list.
With respect to the goods that witnessed a decline over the period, the spending on food shrank from 68% to 59%, while on clothing from 19% to 18%, almost no change so to say.
Turning to the categories with an upward pattern, the rise of medicine was over twofold more than the one of home goods, albeit the latter was still higher. While initial figures constituted 4% and 9%, they had grown by 7% and 3% over the course of time.