The bar chart illustrates the percentage of total spending on food and drink, restaurants and hotels, and entertainment among five age groups in the UK in 2004.
Overall, the proportion of expenditures on food and drink category showed an upward trend across all age groups, whereas the percentage of spending on restaurants and hotel displayed opposite trend. Futhermore, the most striking feature is the proportion of expenditure on Restaurants and hotels, reaching the lowest rate among all the age groups.
With regard to the younger groups, spending on food and drink stood at just above 5% for (those) under 30 and continud to increase steadily, (reaching) around 17% in the 46-60 group. Similarly expenditure on entertainment (ranged) between 5% and 10% for the two youngest groups before rising to around 14% in the 46-60 group.In contrast, spending on restaurans and hotels was the highest among the youngest group at about 15% and then decreased sllightly to( roughly) 13% in the following age groups.
Turning to the older age groups, the expenditure on food and drink continued its growth reaching around 20% for 61-75. In the oldest group, the spending on this category stood at about 23%, reaching the highest among all the age groups. Also another highest point belonged to the expenditure on entertainment with the same rate for those between 61 and 75. The category has a negative correlation on these two age groups decreasing considerably from about 23 % to 13%. Besides the two categories, for those 61-75, the percentage of expenditure on restaurants and hotels stood at the lowest rate about 2% among all age groups.
