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 how much money was spent on making

families

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living in a country in 1968 and in 2018.

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it is clear that

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households paid the majority of their money for their groceries in 1968,

while

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leisure took up the biggest part of their budget in 2018.

On the other hand

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, in both years in 1968 and in 2018,

families

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spent the least on fuel and power bills.

To begin

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in the year 1968, citizens in the given country spent most of their weekly income on food,

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is 40%. The second biggest expenditure was for housing and clothing including footwear purchasing, and the two categories' percentages were the same at 10% of the total budget.

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, fees for leisure activities accounted for approximately 8%.

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, in 2018, the average weekly spending by

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changed.

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, households were willing to pay for leisure, which made up 23% of weekly income, almost three times higher than in 1968.

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housing rent was the second largest budget, which almost doubled compared with 1968's rent.

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but not least,

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in 2018 tended to pay much less money for their food. It was 35% in 1968 but dropped to nearly 18% 50 years later.