Band 7+: The charts below show the proportion of people's total spending in a particular European country was spent on different commodities and services in 1958 and in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts delineate the proportion of the overall spending on various high-value items and services in a European nation in a 50-year period from 1958 to 2008.

Overall, in contrast to an upward trend of spending on houses, vehicles, and luxury commodities; food, clothing and entertainment lost its favor. This suggests a shift of personal property needs in a member state of Europe.

Looking at the charts more closely, one can see that individual’s spending on travelling and transportation witnessed a rise up to 5%, from 8% to 17%. Furthermore, spending on luxury goods and houses increased significantly by 10%, , from 7% to 17%, and from 22% to 32%, respectively; additionally, the latter dominated the chart by the end of the time span.

Considering the remainings, clothing consumption had a negligible change of only 2%, from 18% down to 16%. Whereas, expenditure on both food and entertainment experienced a significant decline; while the proportion of foods halved from 13% to 6%, entertainment dropped sharply by 20%, from 32% to 12% by 2008.