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 chart illustrates categories where families in a particular country decided to spend their weekly income between 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, food was the highest percentage, but it wasn’t the highest anymore in 2018.

While

housing, leisure, and transport received higher focus compared with

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period, fuel and power, clothing, and personal goods experienced a decrement. Household goods stayed relatively the same

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these years. Even though families spent their income mostly on food in 1968 with 35% of the total, in 2018

this

ratio dropped down to just approximately 18% in 2008. Experienced the same decrement, power related resources, clothes and shoes, and personal items

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went down about 2%, 5% and 4% respectively.

In contrast

, showed the greatest increment,

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percentage increased from just under 10% in 1968 to more than 20% in 2018.

As well as

housing and transport, which plumped from 10% to just under 20% and from approximately 8% to almost 15% respectively.

Lastly

, household items

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clearly the same at lower than 10% between 1978 and 2018.