The given table illustrates how household expenditures were distributed through six different categories in a European country over the period from 1920 to 1980.
Overall, there is an obvious that the budgets spent to food, transportation, and clothing received a significant shift after 1950, while the remaining categories changed negligibly, excepting housing climbing to the top field by 1980.
Looking first at the categories which showed the clerest shifts, the percentage of expenditure on transportation was the lowest in 1920, standing at approximately 3%. This figure then witnessed the sharpest change after reaching at 13 % in 1950 and continuously climbing to the second position in 1980, around 25%. By contrast, food accounted for the largest proportion of budgets in 1920, at 41%, leaving its leading position by the end of the period when it decreased to 22% . Similarly, the proportion spent on clothing recorded a substantial decline from 17% to 5% between 1920 and 1980.
Regarding the remaining sectors, the expenditure on housing rose steadily from 26% to 33%, maintaining its dominance in 1980.The most stable categories overall were healthcare and other because they remained nearly unchanged after the 60- year period. The percentage on healthcare still remained at 4% in 1920 and 1980, despite mimor fluctuations, while there was a margin increase to 13% in spending allocation on other by 1950, consistently stable at 14 % in 1980.