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 diagram illustrates 8 categories of expenditure of households each week in a selected country in 1968 and 2018. It is apparent that the expense of

food

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was occupied mainly in 1968

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that of leisure accounted for the largest proportion in 2018. From the period shown, not only the figure for

food

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but

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that for fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal

goods

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declined.

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, the number of rest types except household

goods

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which maintained the same figure of around 8 per

cent

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gained an

increase

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. In 1968, the major expenditure was

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food

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which counted for 35 per

cent

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.

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, alterations were taken place later. In 2018, there was a descend in the amount of money which was spent on

food

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, clothing and footwear, fuel and power and personal

goods

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, among which the former two sorts' expenses halved to around 17 and 5 per

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separately, the rest two decreased mildly to approximately 4 percentage. In comparison, the amount of leisure dominated at about 23 per

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in 2018 and that of housing and transport rocketed up as well, reaching around 19 and 14 per

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. The proportion of household

goods

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retained the same figure of about 8 per

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for these 50 years.