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The two pie charts give information about (1) what households spent their money on  household expenditure on goods and services household expenditure on goods and services in 1920 and 2000. It is immediately obvious that (2) there are some quite significant differences  some things are significantly differentthere are some quite significant differences between the two charts.

In 2000 (3) the largest proportion of expenditure was  most money was spent onthe largest proportion of expenditure was recreation and other items whereas in 1920 it was on food, with recreation and other items accounting for just 7.7%. There is a great difference in terms of (4) the amount of money people spent on food  food expenditure food expenditure between the two years. In 1920 nearly 72% of (5) the total household budget  the total of what households spentthe total household budget went towards food, compared to only 22% in 2000.

(6) There has been a notable increase in  People have notably increasedThere has been a notable increase in the amount of money spent on travelling and communications between the two dates. In addition, the charts show (7) a significant rise in the proportion of money spent on clothing  that people spent more on clothesa significant rise in the proportion of money spent on clothing in 2000 compared to 1920.

There are some similarities, however. For example, in both 1920 and 2000 (8) people spent a similar proportion on fuel and lighting  the proportion of fuel and lighting expenditure was roughly the same the proportion of fuel and lighting expenditure was roughly the same.