The given charts provide detailed information about the household income and spending on food and clothes by an average family in a city of the UK between 2010 and 2013. Overall, whereas the figure for total income decreased, the expenditure saw a growth. It is also evident that the expenditure on fruit and vegetables, and dairy products saw increases over three years, when the opposite pattern was observed in meat and fish, and clothes despite sharing the biggest proportions in the initial years, with the percentage of other food and drinks remaining unchanged.
In spite of a decrease in the total income, the figure for the spending increased. The figure for the income declined from $29,000 to $25,000, while that of spending rose from $14,000 to just $15,000
Focusing on the increases, the figure for expending on the fruits and vegetables started at 20%, a figure that then increased significantly to 35% by 2013. Meanwile, that of showed five-percent-less point in spending on the dairy products in the initial year than the latter category, reaching 20% by the final year.
The figure for the meat and fish and the clothes, on the other hand, bucked the trend. The percentage for those two categories was the priority expenditure in 2010 with respective figures of 25% and 22%. After which the figures underwent decreases, expenditure on the former and the latter categories declining by 10% each. In contrast, the share of other food and drinks expenditure stayed stable at 18% over the years.