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

The bar graph illustrates data on how the average family in one particular country spent their weekly

income

in the years 1968 and 2018.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the way of families spent their

income

changed dramatically in 2018 as opposed to 1968. Most notably, leisure and housing had overtaken food as the largest areas of expenditure. In 1968, families spent more on food accounting for 35% of their weekly

income

,

whereas

in 2018

this

trend has decreased to almost 17%.

Furthermore

, leisure and housing both of them showed a significant increase in the expenditure of families nearly 22% and 18% in 2018 respectively. In terms of expenditure on transport

also

rose, to almost 15% of weekly

income

,

while

money spent on household goods accounted for approximately 7% in both years.

Therefore

, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods of them never exceeded 5% of weekly

income

.