Pie Charts
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The two pie charts compare the average home domestic spending in a country in 1950 and 2010 respectively. According to the first pie chart, it consists of six parts. In 1950, category of housing accounted for the largest proportion that was 72.1 per cent of total expenditure. Food came next in the second position, with the average family spending 11.2 per cent of whole expenditures on eating. However, compared Compared with the large consumption on the former two categories, people in 1950 spent much less on education, other, transportation and health care (6.6%, 4.4%, 3.3% and 2.4%). In 2010, most corresponding figures had changed remarkably. The category amount of spending of on housing saw a sharp decrease, with the figure dropping to 22 per cent. However Meanwhile , spending on food, healthy care, transportation and other experienced an opposite trend, with average family paid more money for those categories in comparison to that in 1950 (34%, 4.5%, 14% and 19.2%)
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IELTS Writing Task 1 Sample
Transcript of Pie Charts
The two pie charts compare the average home domestic spending in a country in 1950 and 2010 respectively.
According to the first pie chart, it consists of six parts. In 1950, category of housing accounted for the largest proportion that was 72.1 per cent of total expenditure. Food came next in the second position, with the average family spending 11.2 per cent of whole expenditures on eating. However, compared Compared with the large consumption on the former two categories, people in 1950 spent much less on education, other, transportation and health care (6.6%, 4.4%, 3.3% and 2.4%).
In 2010, most corresponding figures had changed remarkably. The category amount of spending of on housing saw a sharp decrease, with the figure dropping to 22 per cent. HoweverMeanwhile, spending on food, healthy care, transportation and other experienced an opposite trend, with average family paid more money for those categories in comparison to that in 1950 (34%, 4.5%, 14% and 19.2%)
Overall, compared to the figure in 1950, average family spent much more money on eating, transportation and other, while less money on housing in 2010. It is noticeable that expenditure of education was the only category that remained at the similar level in both years.
EC2, 12/08/15,
This is not an accurate way of describing. A trend is not a percentage, so you cannot use (34%...) at the end of the sentence. Also, without the total figure, we cannot conclude that people are paying more money. They are only distributing more percentages.
EC2, 12/08/15,
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