The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of family weekly

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in a particular nation in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

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, the average family

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had significantly changed over the 50 years. Another interesting point is that spending on

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was the highest expense in 1968,

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in 2018, leisure had the majority of the family budget in weekly spending, followed closely by housing. In 1968, families spent 35% of their weekly income on

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which was the highest

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compared to other budgetary concerns; each of any categories showed between 5% and 10%.

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, fuel and power were the lowest at 6%. By 2018, the

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on

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had dropped considerably from 35% to around 16%,

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leisure had become more critical

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families’ income and spent on leisure rose more than 20%, followed by housing and

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, at 19% and 17% respectively. When people’s usage of clothing and foot ware doubled to roughly 14% from 7%, the weekly spending on household goods remained unchanged in both periods.