The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarie the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph provided a comparison of how one nation’s households spent their weekly earnings in different cost categories ( food, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household goods, personal goods, transport and leisure) in 1968 and 2018. At a glance, it is noticeable that families spent the most on food in 1968,

whereas

leisure took

this

position in 2018. On one hand, households have spent very little on fuel and power in both years in question. Going into more detail, food costs represented 35 per

cent

of weekly income for families in 1998,

then

took the biggest dip of 20 per

cent

in 2019 compared to the rest of the costs.

Such

a sharp decline was not observed in other categories. Prominently,

while

approximately 10% of the weekly salaries were spent on housing and leisure in 1998, both were increased by an additional 10 per

cent

after five decades.

In contrast

to all the expenditure types having varying statistics over two periods, that of household periods has remained unchanged, standing at about eight per

cent

of the weekly earnings.