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.
The diagram illustrates the percentage of a country's average weekly spending by families in two different years.
Overall
, the expenditure on food in 1968 accounted for a major proportion up to 35%
while
it significantly dropped to about 17% in 2018, and the number of leisure expenses in the same year accounted for over 20% as the highest one. People's consumption for housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household
goods
, personal
goods
, transport and leisure are all less than or equal to 10%,
by comparison
, the expense of fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal
goods
had declined to lower than 5% in 2018 and the number of housing and transport increased to about 20% and 15% perspectively. To summarise, the average family consumption of housing, transport and leisure had increased by over 5%~10%.
By contrast
, the number of food, fuel and power, personal
goods
, clothing and footwear had declined to less than 5%, and only the weekly consumption of household
goods
remained unchanged in the two years.
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Vocabulary: Replace the words goods with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "declined" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
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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