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

The bar chart provides information about the mean expenditure that households spent in a week for a

50 year

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span from 1968 to 2018, measured in percentage.

Overall

, it is noticeable that the most

expense

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was for

food

consumption with the least for

fuel

and

power

purposes in 1968.

However

, in 2018, the expenditure was dominant for leisure activities and less significant for

fuel

and

power

usage.

According to

the bar chart data, it showed that

food

consumption showed the highest spending

while

fuel

and

power

exhibited the least dominance in 1968. In the year 1968, nearly 40% of expenditure was used for

food

needs, more than three times higher than those for housing, clothing, and footwear spending in that year, which only accounted for one in ten

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each spending.

In contrast

,

fuel

and

power

were the least in spending at only around 7%, slightly lower than clothing and footwear expenditures. Turning to 2018, families dominantly use their income for leisure activities with the least for personal goods,

fuel

, and

power

items. The proportion of money spent

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leisure activities was about 23%, followed by housing and

food

spending at around 18% and 17%, respectively.

Conversely

, personal goods only used just above 5%

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total spending in a week,

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as

fuel

and

power

expenses in 2018.