The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the amount of money that households spent in a specific country from their weekly wages in the years 1968 and 2018, measured in percentages.

Overall

, it is noticeable that people mostly used their money for food consumption in 1968,

while

in 2018 for leisure things.

According to

the data, the proportion of expenses predominantly was for dishes in 1968. Starting with the biggest consumption at 35% among all expenses, meal consumption was the highest before followed by the second largest percentage at 10% for clothing and footwear, which a similar expenses to housing needs.

Furthermore

, other categories

such

as household, personal, and transport goods were merely at just below 10% per week, slightly higher than fuel and power which accounted for around 8% per week.

However

, turning to the second data, the most dominant spending in a week was for leisure needs. Having accounted for about 23% weekly in 2018, the proportion of spending followed by housing usage at just below 20%, slightly higher than for food intake in the same year.

In contrast

, fuel, power, and personal goods were no more than 5% of spending,

whereas

transportation used about 18% of spending, more than three-fold higher