The table illustrates how children and adults expended their income on four main items in the uk in the year 1998

The table illustrates how children and adults expended their income on four main items in the UK in the year 1998.
Overall, it is obvious that adults, regardless of their gender, allocated more on food and least on videos, while children, expended most on music and smallest amount of their income on food with girls on electronic equipment.
Spending preferences of both men and women in the UK were the same in some aspects .Both genders budgeted the least on videos, at 2% for men and 1% for women. They also spent equally on music with 5% for both. Men allocated 10% to electronic equipment, which is ten times more than of women. In contrast, women were to spend 39% on food almost three times higher than men with 14%. Moreover, adults, in general, expended 25% on food, 5% on electronic equipment also for music with the smallest amount on videos 1%.
Specifically, children both girls and boys in the UK allocated more on entertainment such as music and videos( 38% and 18%, 40% and 17%). Boys, however, expended three times more on electronic equipment than girls( 18% and 5%). Similarly, both boys and girls spent almost the same amount of their incone on food with girls 11% and with boys 9%.