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

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of weekly

income

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spending of family households in 1968 and 2018.

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, we can see the changes in the priority of fundamental human needs over the 5 decades. In 1968 most of the spending went for food necessities at 35% of the total

income

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. The graph shows that the numbers plummeted to 17% in 2018.

In addition

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to that, food, which was the main spending category in 1968, is no longer the biggest contributor to the spending

of

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incomes

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income

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in 2018. Leisure activities have dominated the most spending in the total expenses of weekly incomes at 22% in 2018.

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, housing appliances, which held 10% of the total spending in 1968 doubled to nearly 20% of the weekly

income

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in 2018. Some aspects of the basic necessities (the percentage of spending)

does

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not really change throughout the years. Household goods

for instance

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remain at 13% of the percentage

weekly

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of weekly

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income

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in the

half century

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period. Others,

such

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as fuel and power

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do not have any significant changes after the 50 years gap.