The table shows the average income and expenditure on food and clothes of people from a UK town, and the accompanying pie charts compare the proportion of money spent on various food items and clothes in 2010 and 2013. Although the average income decreased, there was a slight increase in the amount of money allocated to buying food and clothes. The expenditure patterns were similar in both years as there was more allocation to fruits and vegetables as well as meat and fish, while people spent a relatively small amount of money on other products and clothes.
The average income and spending on clothes and food exhibited noticeable changes. In 2010, people earned $29000 on average, a figure that then saw a moderate drop to $25000 in 2013. The average expenditure on food and clothes, however, followed a reverse pattern, as people spent $14000 on these in 2010 but this figure rose negligibly to $15000 in 2013.
Focusing on the major expenses among food and clothes, in 2013, people spent 30% of their total expenditure on fruit and vegetables, up from 26% in 2010. The most significant expense in 2010 -meat and fish – accounted for 29% of people’s spending, but this figure dropped slightly by 6-persentage-points in 2013.
By contrast, outlay on the remaining items was noticeably smaller. While people spent 12% of their total expenditure on dairy products in 2010, they allocated slightly more in 2013, at 16%. In both years, unspecified food items showed the same 18%. As for clothes, 15% the overall spending was for these items in 2010 but the these figure declined to 13% by 2013.