The provided pie chart compares six different commodities and services in a particular European country, namely housing, food, clothing, transportation, entertainment and luxury goods, in terms of the proportion of people’s total expenditures in 1958 and in 2008.
Overall, the percentage of personal budget on luxury goods, housing and travel rose remarkably over the period shown. In contrast, food, clothing, entertainment experienced a slight decrease in the figures during the given time.
Looking at the figures in more detail, food accounted for the highest the proportion of people’s total payment with 32%, followed by significantly lower figures in housing and cloting with 22% and 18%, accordingly. Meanwhile, the rate of personal budget on entartainment was approximately half lower than the figure in food.
The lowest figures were recorded in expenditures in luxury goods and transportation, which shared nearly the same figures, 7% and 8%, respectively.
In the following years, the figures for spending on food decline sharply, at 12% in 2008. A similar pattern could be observed in personal budget on clothing and entertainment, fell insignificantly, at 16% and 6%, respectively. By contrast, there was a growth notable in the rate of people’s total expenditures in housing to 32%. Meanwhile, travel and luxury goods saw a growth steady at a faster pace to share the same figure, at 17% in 2008