The pie charts reveal differences in UK spending patterns related to seven categories measured in percentages between 1981 to and 30 years later, 2001. As an overall trend, the highest spending in 1971 definitely centered on Food and at that time people did not really focus on computers which took the bottom position in spending. The basic trends for 2001 reveal that Cars as the highest spending category, while it seems that the residents choose to spend a minuscule amount on books in this year. Together Food and Cars comprised over half of the household spending in the UK with Food accounting for 44% of spending in 1971 and Cars at 22%. However, the outlay on cars doubled in 2001, rising from 22% in 1971 to 43% in 2001, while Food dramatically fell by 30% from 1971. It appears that Petrol remained fairly consistent over the 30 year period with only a 2% drop. Other areas also changed significantly with spending on eating out doubling, climbing from 7% to 14%. The proportion of salary spent on computers increased dramatically, up from 2% in 1971 to 12% in 2001. However, s computer expenditure rose, the percentage of outlay on books plunged from 6% to 1%.
The pie charts reveal differences in UK
spending
patterns related to seven categories measured in percentages between 1981 to and 30 years later, 2001. As an
overall
trend, the highest
spending
in 1971 definitely centered on
Food
and at that time
people
did not
really
focus on computers which took the bottom position in
spending
. The basic trends for 2001 reveal that
Cars
as the highest
spending
category, while it seems that the residents choose to spend a minuscule amount on books in this year. Together
Food
and
Cars
comprised over half of the household
spending
in the UK with
Food
accounting for 44% of
spending
in 1971 and
Cars
at 22%.
However
, the outlay on
cars
doubled in 2001, rising from 22% in 1971 to 43% in 2001, while
Food
dramatically
fell by 30% from 1971. It appears that Petrol remained
fairly
consistent over the
30 year
period with
only
a 2% drop. Other areas
also
changed
significantly
with
spending
on eating out doubling, climbing from 7% to 14%. The proportion of salary spent on computers increased
dramatically
, up from 2% in 1971 to 12% in 2001.
However
, s computer expenditure rose, the percentage of outlay on books plunged from 6% to 1%.