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

The bar chart demonstrates the comparison of how families in a certain region spent 7-days salary in 1968 and 2018.

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, in the past, the most required needs were food and a roof over a hand, but with the coming of a new ,era free-time activity has outraced the mentioned early necessities. In 1968 grocery shopping was the most popular reason for spending money,

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actions have taken exactly 35% of weekly earned. The leisure, renting and clothes buying were making people spend about 10% of the money on each area. The less desired purchase was the oil or gas for the transport, approximately 6% of the total sum.

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, the tendency was considerably changed in 2018 ,

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, food has lost its previous numbers

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and dropped to the around 15%. At the same time, the demand for hobbies and leisure has increased and reached more than 20% (about 23%) in 2018. Housing has almost doubled its percentage and finance that was spent on

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need increased to nearly 20%.