Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The line graph below shows the percentage of spending in Turkey, from 1960 to 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The line graph illustrates information about spending in Turkey, between 1960 and 2000, and rates are measured in percentages.

Overall, as can be seen, food has experienced a significant decrease during the period while for shopping spending money increased.

First of all, in 1960 peopel spend 35% of their budget for food, and after a decade this rate dropped to about 32%. Consequently, it declined to nearly 26% and by 2000 it went down to 15%. Moreover, leisure money has also faced a stable drop. In the beginning of the period, it was 20% and then in 1980 it started decreasing showing almost 15%. And in the end it was probably. 12%.

Conversely, for shopping is spent about 9% of the familys’ budgets in 1960, but after twenty years it reached 15% and by the end of the period it rose to nearly 18%. Furthermore, for energy was spentonly 5% in 1960 and by 2000 it almost showed 1%.