The given illustrations delineate information about one particular European country’s residents’ total spending on basic needs and sevices in two different years, 1998 and 2008. The information is categorized by six types of services and goods: holiday, clothing, eating out, electronic goods, newspaper magazines, and going to the cinema.
Overall, it is evident that the spending figures for clothing and electronic goods had the highest levels in 1998, and only these sectors statistics had increased by 2008, while other three expenditure groups, holiday, newspaper, and cinema, had witnessed a slight decline by 2008. Interestingly, the amount of money spent on eating out maintained its level constantly in both years.
In 1998, the amount of spending on clothing and electronic goods was the highest, at 12 and 16, respectively, while the figures for newspaper magazines and cinema had the lowest rates, at 3. The remaining sectors are holiday and eating out, people spent their budget on these categories averagely comparing to others, about 8 and 6, in turn.
With respect to the statistics for the year 2008, clothing and electronic goods maintained their top level, with a noticeable increase to 18 and 20, respectively, whereas the figure for eating out surpassed the spending on holiday with 6, while holiday sector had a light decline to 5. Interestingly, the lowest-level sectors, newspaper magazines and cinema, in 1998 remained in this spot with minimal decline to 1 for each.