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 given bar chart details the use of households’ income on the basis of a weekly average in the two different time periods of 1968 and 2018. In general, in both eras, which include the 20th century and the 21st century, the major expenses of a household in a week were for eating, housing and

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entertainment. In detail, daily lives in 1968 witnessed supreme high spending on the food of people which accounted for 35% of their weekly income.

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, until 2018, the families’ habits seemed to change evidenced by a lower rate of 16% spending on eating. At the same time, transport and leisure might become more expensive in due course. Particularly, spending on transport rose from under 10% to 14% and that on leisure with the original status of almost 10% peaked at the highest rank of 22% for 50 years. On the low classification of ranking including the spending on housing, fueling, wearing, household and personal goods, buying household goods and payment for fuel remained nearly unchanged during the course.

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, a dramatic change can be seen in the investment in housing of which the data in 2018 doubled that in 1968 in a deeper view showing the rise in the price of real estate.

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, clothing and buying personal goods

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had their fees in 2018 halved the same

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1968.