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 demonstrates the average weekly expenditure of families in a single country on 8 different categories in 50 years apart period, 1968 and 2018. The spending was measured as a percentage of the weekly income. At first glance, it can be seen that, in 1968, the majority of weekly spending was on

Food

whereas

it was spent on

Leisure

in 2018.

Furthermore

,

Food

, Fuel and power, Clothing and

footware

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footwear

, and Personal goods were higher in 1968,

however

, Housing, Transport, and

Leisure

had more expenditure in 2018.

In addition

, for Household goods, it was equal in both 1968 and 2018. In terms of

Food

, people spent 35% of their weekly income in 1968,

while

on the other hand

, they spent around 17% in 2018.

Similarly

, there was a 2% difference in Fuel and Power between 1968 and 2018, at 5% and 3% respectively.

Moreover

, regarding Clothing and

footware

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footwear

, the record declined by half from 10% in 1968 to 5% in 2018. In 2018, residents focused most of their spending on

Leisure

and Housing. Concerning

Leisure

, it can be viewed that there was more than twice an increase between 1986 and 2018.

Additionally

, the amount spent on Housing was almost two times in 2018 compared to 1968. In Transport, the cost spent doubled in 2018 at 14%

while

it was 7% in 1968. In summary, there was

overall

spending on

Food

at 35% in 1968,

while

in contrast

, most of the population spent on

leisure

at 23% in 2018.