The graph depicts the amount of Weekly expenditure of an average family in Europe.
Overall, it can be seen that most of the money spending on housing whereas spending on tobacco was the least.
To commence with, in 1987, average family spend 15% on housing. Transport, which was constitute for 11% of the weekly spending.The proportion of spending in Fuel and power and Other goods and services accounted for 18% and 16% respectively. A fifth of the weekly spending went for food. Tobacco which was the lowest with 7%.
In 2007, the expenditure for housing increased dramatically to 33%. Also, family spend their money for transport witnessed a significant growth to 31% which ranked second. It is interesting to note that tobacco and food experienced similar decrease by 5% Each. There was a slight fall by 3% in fuel and power. The percentage of Other goods and services remain unchanged.