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The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the informtion by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the informtion by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar chart illustrates the changes
between
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in
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 average weekly spending in eight categories by
families
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 in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
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,
families
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 in 2018 spent their weekly income
quit
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quite
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 differently in comparison to 1968
,
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apply
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 when they had to spend a huge
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percent
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percentage
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 of
income
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their income
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 on food. That’s why in 2018
families
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 had more opportunities to spend more on leisure than on anything else. There were three categories in which
families
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 in 2018 spend more than in 1968. Leisure is the biggest expense with more than two times
figures
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compare
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compared
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 to 1968 (25 and 8
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percent
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per cent
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respectfully
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respectively
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).
Transport
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The transport
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 and housing category were
also
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 nearly twice as big. (14 and 19
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percent
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per cent
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).
On the other hand
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,
families
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 in 1968 spent noticeably more on several categories. Food was the biggest expense and took more than a third of the whole budget.
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, they spent twice as more on clothing and
footware
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footwear
 (8
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percent
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per cent
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) and personal goods (10
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percent
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per cent
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).

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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "also".
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Contractions: Don't use contractions.
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Basic structure: Change the fourth paragraph.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words families, percent with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fourth paragraph.
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