The bar chart illustrates the amount of money per household in the US on five different products, namely food, clothes, books, smartphones, and toiletries in 2010 and 2014.
Overall, there was an increase in household spending on food, smartphones and toiletries from 2010 to 2014, the opposite was true for books. In addition, food was the group, having the largest amount of money spent on
As can be seen in the chart, the household expenditure in the US on food was about just over $3,500 in 2010, after which it experienced a significant rise to nearly $4,500 for the following four years. A similar change can be seen in the figure for smartphones, which went up considerably from $2,000 in 2010 to north of $2,500 in 2014. By contrast, the amount of money spent on books by per household in the US in 2014 saw a different change, falling by $500 during the four years.
Regarding the remaining categories, about $1,800 was expended on toiletries in the first year, followed by a slight rise to exactly $2,000 in the next four years. Meanwhile, there was a stability in the figure for clothes, which was at precisely $2,500 in both years.