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
was occupied mainly in 1968 while
that of leisure accounted for the largest proportion in 2018. From the period shown, not only the figure for food
but also
that for fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods
declined. By contrast
, the number of rest types except household goods
which maintained the same figure of around 8 per cent
gained an increase
.
In 1968, the major expenditure wasReplace the word
increased
Add an article
the
food
which counted for 35 per cent
. However
, alterations were taken place later. In 2018, there was a descend in the amount of money which was spent on food
, clothing and footwear, fuel and power and personal goods
, among which the former two sorts' expenses halved to around 17 and 5 per cent
separately, the rest two decreased mildly to approximately 4 percentage.
In comparison, the amount of leisure dominated at about 23 per cent
in 2018 and that of housing and transport rocketed up as well, reaching around 19 and 14 per cent
. The proportion of household goods
retained the same figure of about 8 per cent
for these 50 years.Submitted by ysh424 on
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