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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