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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
 in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
,
families
 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
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
 had more opportunities to spend more on leisure than on anything else. There were three categories in which
families
 in 2018 spend more than in 1968. Leisure is the biggest expense with more than two times
figures
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the figures
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compare
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compared
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 to 1968 (25 and 8
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
 nearly twice as big. (14 and 19
percent
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per cent
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).
On the other hand
,
families
 in 1968 spent noticeably more on several categories. Food was the biggest expense and took more than a third of the whole budget.
Also
, they spent twice as more on clothing and
footware
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footwear
 (8
percent
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per cent
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) and personal goods (10
percent
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per cent
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).
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