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Task 1 Academic · pie chart
The pie charts below show the proportion of household spending in Canada across five categories in 1990 and 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The two pie charts compare how Canadian households divided their spending between five categories, namely housing, food, transport, entertainment and other items, in 1990 and 2020.
Overall, housing became a considerably larger part of the family budget over the thirty-year period, whereas the proportions spent on food and entertainment declined. Transport remained relatively stable throughout.
In 1990, food was the largest category, accounting for 30% of total expenditure, followed closely by housing at 27%. By 2020, however, housing had risen sharply to 39%, making it by far the biggest item, while food had dropped to 21%.
The remaining categories showed smaller changes. Spending on transport stayed almost unchanged, edging up from 15% to 16%, and the share of 'other' expenses grew from 12% to 15%. In contrast, entertainment saw the most significant fall in relative terms, shrinking from 16% in 1990 to just 9% in 2020. This suggests that families had less money available for leisure once essential costs were covered, although the charts do not explain the reasons of this change.
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- Lexical ResourceReduce repetition by paraphrasing key terms with precise synonyms.
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