The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make compararions where releavant.

The bar charts provide data about how households in a certain country allocated their weekly income in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

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, there was a paradigm shift in the way families spent their weekly income in 1968 compared to 2018. Notably, housing and leisure had overtaken food as the largest expense. In 1968, families spent most of their weekly earnings on food, with a portion of 30%,

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figure decreased dramatically to roughly 17% in 2018. None of the other categories surpassed 10% in 1968.

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, in 2018, the proportion spent on housing and leisure was higher than that spent on food, with amounts of approximately 18% and 22%, respectively.

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, expenditure on transport doubled to about 14% of weekly earnings whilst expenditure on household goods remained unchanged in both years at around 7%.

In contrast

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, expenditures on fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal goods all dropped to 5% or less in 2018.