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 comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart presents data about the ratio of the weekly earnings expenditure by households in one country in the years 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, it can be seen from the chart that families spent most of their weekly income on food in 1968 but the situation changed since

then

and they used more

money

on leisure and housing in 2018. The families spent 35 % of their weekly earnings on food

while

spending the same amount of

money

(10%) on housing, clothing and footwear. On each of the following activities, fuel and power, household

goods

, personal

goods

, transport and leisure, they used less than 10 % of their weekly earnings in 1968. In 2018 the situation changed dramatically where households spent less than 15% on food

while

using about 22% of their income on leisure. The rate of

money

spent on housing significantly increased since 1968 and arrived from 10% to 20% in 2018. The amount of

money

spent on transport

also

increased since

then

and arrived from just under 10% to about 15% in 2018.

While

the percentage of

money

spent on fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal

goods

experienced a slight increase since the beginning of the period, the rate of weekly income spent on household

goods

remained unchanged in 2018.