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and footwear, and fuel, light and power. However, the changes here were much less dramatic. Expenditure on the former dropped steadily from ten per cent to five per cent, and on the latter from six per cent to three per cent. For most of the fiftyyear period, these categories used up a significantly smaller proportion of the household budget than the others.In two categories, transport and housing, the proportions of expenditure almost doubled, rising from eight and nine per cent to sixteen and nineteen per cent respectively. Thus, by the end of the period, the highest proportion of household expendit