The table compares the average annual income of a family in a UK city and its expenditure on food and clothing in 2010 and 2013, while the pie charts illustrate how this spending was distributed across five categories.
Overall, average household income declined over the period, whereas expenditure on food and clothes rose slightly. Food consistently accounted for a far greater share of spending than clothing, and there was a noticeable shift in expenditure from meat and fish towards fruit and vegetables.
In 2010, the average family earned £29,000, of which £14,000 was allocated to food and clothing. Three years later, income had fallen by £4,000 to £25,000, while spending on these two items increased modestly to £15,000, representing a considerably larger proportion of household income.
Regarding the breakdown of expenditure, meat and fish constituted the largest category in 2010, at 29%, followed by fruit and vegetables at 26%. By 2013, however, the latter had risen to 30%, overtaking meat and fish, whose share fell to 23%. Spending on dairy products also increased, from 12% to 16%, whereas the proportion allocated to clothes declined slightly from 15% to 13%. Meanwhile, other food remained stable at 18% throughout the period.