Band 9: The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate in fast food restaurants between 2003 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information about the frequency of fast food consumption among people in the United States from 2003 and 2013.

Overall, it is clear that the majority of people in the USA ate fast food either once a week or once or twice a month. By contrast, eating fast food every day or never was relatively uncommon in all three years.

In 2003 and 2006, the most frequent pattern of eating fast food was once a week, accounting for approximately 31% and 33% respectively. However, this pattern changed in 2013, when the highest proportion of people ate fast food once or twice a month, at around 33%. Overall, these two categories consistently represented the largest shares throughout the period.

By contrast, the proportion of people who ate fast food every day remained very low in all three years, at around 3-5%. Similarly, those who never ate fast food accounted for a small percentage and showed little change over the period. Meanwhile, the figures for eating several times a week and a few times a year fluctuated moderately, without any dramatic trends.