The pie charts show the percentage of money allocated on different intentions including housing, food, clothing, travel, entertainment and luxury goods in a European country in 1958 and 2008. Overall, categories are not divided equally in both years. Housing, luxury goods and clothing observe an upward trend while entertainment and food lose their ground. In contrast, travel and transport remain largely unchanged.
In 1958, food made up for the largest percentage, reaching for more than a quarter of a chart with 32%. Following closely is housing, prevailing up to 22% of the chart. In contrast, 2008 illustrates the opposite pattern, housing recorded a whooping increase, rising up to 32% while food shows a considerable loss, falling down to only 12%. Other categories also ascended dramatically, clothing made the largest leap with the figure from 2008 is twice the figure in 1958, which is 8% to 17%, luxury goods follow a similar pattern with a massive escalation from 7% to 17% during the same period. However, entertainment recorded a decline in its percentage, falling from 13% to 6%, making it the least contributor in 2008.
As an exception, travel together with transport observed little changes in percentage in both years, ranging from 16%-18%.