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 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.
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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
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whereas
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it was spent on
Leisure
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in 2018.
Furthermore
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,
Food
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, Fuel and power, Clothing and
footware
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footwear
, and Personal goods were higher in 1968,
however
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, Housing, Transport, and
Leisure
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had more expenditure in 2018.
In addition
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, for Household goods, it was equal in both 1968 and 2018. In terms of
Food
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, people spent 35% of their weekly income in 1968,
while
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on the other hand
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, they spent around 17% in 2018.
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, there was a 2% difference in Fuel and Power between 1968 and 2018, at 5% and 3% respectively.
Moreover
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, 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
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and Housing. Concerning
Leisure
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, it can be viewed that there was more than twice an increase between 1986 and 2018.
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, 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
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it was 7% in 1968. In summary, there was
overall
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spending on
Food
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at 35% in 1968,
while
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in contrast
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, most of the population spent on
leisure
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at 23% in 2018.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Introduction: The introduction is missing.
Introduction: Change the first sentence in the introduction.
Introduction: The chart intro is missing.
Basic structure: Change the second paragraph.
Introduction: The chart intro is missing.
Vocabulary: Replace the words food, leisure with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fifth paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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