The illustration depicts the development of household expenditure in several categories at a spesific country during a span of 80 years. Overall, there are nine categories of cost spent by the household. There was a considerably rose in number at recreation and other items, meanwhile food category plummeted over the given period.
In 1920 which was the beginning of the period, food was the most prominent category at almost two-thirds portion followed by recreation and other item at 7.7%. At the end of the period, the number holiday and other surged by approximately 26% and surpassed food which at 21.8%. There was a significant different in number between these major categories compared to the others.
Examining both charts, most of the minor categories such as education, housing, etc had slight increase. For instance, travelling and communication was just over 3% of the portion but end up at 14.3% in 2000 made it the third highest spending by the household.
