Band 6+: The chart shows student expenditure over a three-year period in the United Kingdom. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.

The following chart shows how student expenditure is distributed in the UK in the years 1996 and 1999.

In the year 1996, categories like accomodation, household goods and course expenditure were sitting at around 24, 20 and 10%, respectively, all of them werearound 3-4% down in the year 1999. Other aspects in which students reduced their expenditure in 1999 was in Non-essential travel, which went from around 4% to 3%, and children, were there was no expenses in 1999 compared to a 2% in 1996.

If we look at were did students increased their expenditure in 1999 respecting to 1996, we have entertainment, which is by far the most expensive activity for students, which rose from 26% to 32% approximately. Essential travel had a similar percentage in 1996 as Non-essential travel, nevertheless, essential travel went up to 6% in 1999. Other expenses represented a 12% in 1996 and increased around 5%.

Overall, we can see that students decreased their expenditure on essential things such as accomodation, while they increased it in non essential things, mainly on entertainment.