The chart below gives information about how families in one country spenttheir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, andmake comparisons where relevant.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spenttheir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, andmake comparisons where relevant.
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The bar graph illustrates how household spending varies in a specific state with several expenses
such
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as food, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household goods, personal goods, transport and leisure during the period of 1968 to 2018.
Overall
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, the pictures strongly show how other budgets are rising over essential expenses
such
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as food, clothing and footwear over the
last
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five decades. Between 1968 and 2018, a drop could clearly be seen in the food budget percentage decreased by 17.5% in the end.
Likewise
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, the expenditure on clothes and shoes with personal products
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fell by the end, ending at 5% to 4% respectively.
By contrast
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, the spending on housing and that on transportation every week saw an increment throughout
this
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period, with the former rising to 20% and the latter reaching close to 15% in 2018. More striking is that the weekly spending on leisure grew remarkably, more than doubling to 22%. Fascinatingly, there was no change in the weekly expenditure on household goods with the figure stagnant at roughly 8% in both years
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