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

The graph illustrates how households in a particular nation used their weekly wages which were measured in percentages

during

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1968 and 2018.

Overall

, it can be depicted that the

money

spent on food,fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal

goods

decreased over the years

whereas

, the

money

spent on housing, transport and leisure increased

while

the

money

spent on household

goods

were

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the same in both years. In 1968, families spent a large portion of their wages on food which stood at 35% but 6% was used on fuel and power which was the least

through out

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throughout

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the year.

However

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the same

amount

(8%) of the household income was used for personal

goods

,

households

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household

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goods

and transport which was quite similar to the

money

used for leisure. In 2018, there was a

drastical

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drastic

fall in the

money

spent on food to half of the

money

spent in 1968 but the

money

spent on leisure increased significantly from about 9% to 23% and the

amount

spent on housing increased to 19% which was almost half the

amount

in 1968. The same

amount

of

money

was spent on fuel and power and personal

goods

which was quite the same as the spent on clothing and footwear (5%).