The given chart compares annual earnings of families in the UK and their expenditure on food and clothes from 2010 to 2013 while the pie charts explore the proportion of five specific sectors of their outlay on that.
Overall, while the average British families earned less money throughout the period, their spending on food and clothes slightly increased, with a pronounced growth in fruits and vegetables, and dairy products.
According to the table, between 2010 and 2013, there was a decrease of 4,000 pounds from 29,000 to 25,000 pounds in the total household incomes. However, the UK families tended to spend a-thousand-pound higher on food and clothes in 2013, at 15,000 pounds, compared to only 14,000 pounds in the last three years.
Regarding some types of food and clothes being spent, meat and fish was first the priority sector in their expenditure before being taken by fruits and vegetables, with a decrease from 25% to only 15% in the three-year-period. Similarly, clothes were the least spending category among these surveyed sectors, after significantly dropping nearly a half, from 22% to 12%. Conversely, both fruits and vegetables and dairy products, which only took up 15% and 20%, experienced a same significant increase to 35% and 20% in 2013, respectively. This shift made them the most and the second highest proportions for spending. It is also notable that the figure for other food and beverages expenditure is the only one which remained unchanged during the timeframe, at 18%.