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

the bar chart compares the family's weekly expenditure on eight different categories from their salary in a particular country in 1968 and 2018.

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there were noticeable fluctuations in almost sections, the percentage of money that people spent on household goods remained stable over the period.

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there was a dramatic decrease in food expenses from 35% at the beginning of the period to 17% in 2018. Other falls were fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal goods which became approximately half

at the end

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of the period , 4%,5% and 4% respectively.

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the percentage of household furniture remained at 8%.

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, the significant rise allocated to leisure rose more than double from just under 10% to 22% in 2018.

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, housing could be ranked as the second place which jumped nearly two times and reached 19% over four decades. Following by transport the third considerable growth which increased from 8% to 14% over 40 years.