The chart shows that having a more advanced educational level made a small but significant difference in

the way people spent their income, in a given European country in 2015.

Firstly, although housing costs accounted for by far the largest percentage of out goings, it was much
higher for householders with school education only: 35 percent compared with/to just 30 percent for
those with further education declining to 25 percent for university graduates. It was noticeable that
school leavers chose to eat in the home more than those with other education levels (14 percent
compared with 8 and 5 percent for those completing further education university graduates
respectively). University graduates spent proportionately much more than school leavers on pension
provision (17 percent compared with 10 percent).

Transport spending showed a notably different trend with further education educated householders
spending a higher percentage of their income (25 percent) then either of the other two groups.
Correspondingly, spending on other items was lower for this group (11 percent) then school leavers (15
percent) and university graduates (17 percent).