The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2018.
The bar chart illustrates the proportion of households’ weekly
income
spent on various categories in one nation between 1968 and 2018.
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Overall
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it is clear that
people spent most of their Linking Words
income
on buying food in 1968 Use synonyms
while
the cost of leisure accounted for the largest in 2018.
In 1968, 35% of families’ Linking Words
income
was used for buying food which was the highest in the chart. The money spent on housing was similar to that on clothing and footwear, both comprising 10% of the Use synonyms
income
. The proportions of the remaining categories were relatively lower, ranging from 5% to 10%.
Turning to the year 2018, the figure for food dropped significantly by half to approximately 17.5% Use synonyms
while
that for housing and leisure both grew sharply to around 20%. At the same time, the proportion of transport experienced a substantial rise of 5% to 14%. Linking Words
In contrast
, the figure for the others all fell to under 5% except household goods, which maintained its stability at 8% throughout the period.Linking Words
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