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

The bar chart compares the allocation of weekly household budgets in a country in two different years, 1968 and 2018.

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, in the former year, families spent the largest portion of their income on food,

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in 2018,

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priority shifted to entertainment, accounting for more than one-fifth of total expenditure. The year 2018 witnessed a rise in the distribution of expenditure on several terms, including that on recreation doubling from less than one-tenth to over 20%.

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growth was followed by the cost of housing( up 19% from 1968) and transportation( around 6%).

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, over fifty years, the spending on food halved, from 35% to roughly 17%. A similar trend was

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seen in the expenses on garments

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personal goods where their proportions dipped by the same five per cent. The budget for fuel and power remains the least in the two years, with a slight decrease from about 6% to 4%,

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there was no change in the spending on household goods.