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

A chart is provided with some information about the way families in a special country spent their weekly income in the years 1968 and 2018. A glance at the chart reveals that almost all the categories of weekly expenditure experienced a reduction trend from the

year

2018, except for

food

clothing and footwear and personal

goods

. Meanwhile, the percentage for household

goods

remained the same in both years. Analyzing the proportion of the money which families used in the

year

1968, highlights

food

as the major expenditure item with 35% of weekly income. It is

while

, housing and clothing, and

footware

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footwear

were in second

place

using only 10% of the money in the week. Spending money on leisure stands third in the ranking with almost 9%, just ahead of personal

goods

, household

goods

and transport with the same percentage of almost 8%. The

last

item to be ranked was fueled and

power

which was just about 6% of all the expenditures in the week.

On the other hand

, the

year

2018 experienced a different ranking, with leisure paint in first

place

with almost 22%, just ahead of the housing category with almost 19% in second

place

, and

food

with almost 16% was the next. Transport and household

goods

ranked fourth and fifth with almost 14% and 8% respectively. It is

while

clothing and footwear were ranked sixth with 5%, just ahead of fuel and

power

and personal

goods

with almost 4%. On the whole, it is evident that

food

was the number one expenditure of the week in the

year

1968 and field and

power

were the least. As in the

year

2018 first

place

goes to leisure and fill and

power

holds the same record as the least used option with accompaniment of personal

goods

.