The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.
The diagram illustrates the expenditure of family units in eight different areas in 1968 and 2018, namely
food
, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household goods
, personal goods
, transport, and leisure
. Units are measured in percentages.
Overall
, the highest amount of money
was spent on food
in 1968, whereas
the community spent the most money
on leisure
in 2018. Moreover
, food
expenditure has the widest disparity between 1968 and 2018.
According to
the graph, payment for food
, fuel and power, and personal goods
saw a decline over the period of fifty years. In contrast
, more money
was spent on housing, transport, and leisure
in the given period. Spending on food
was 35% in 1968 and approximately 18% in 2018, while
society spent roughly 8% of their all money
on leisure
in 1968 and almost 23% in 2018. Housing has the same proportion as clothing and footwear in 1968 which was 10%, yet the former is under four times as large as the latter in 2018. (almost 20% and 5% respectively.) It is also
observed that fuel and power expenses and personal good expense share the same levels in 1968 but in 2018, marginally greater amounts were spent on personal goods
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Vocabulary: Replace the words food, goods, leisure, money with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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