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

The bar chart gives data on the average weekly spending of families of a certain nation in the years 1968 and 2018.

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, from the information, more money was spent on food per week, second to housing, clothing and footwear but it took a different turn after 4 decades, where more funds were for leisure,

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shelter before food. In 1968, household expenses were mainly on nourishment, which was at the rate of 35%, next to 10% each spent on structure, clothes and shoes respectively,

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other working weeks spending

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as transportation, household

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, leisure, personal

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, fuel and power, falls below 10%.

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, in 2018, there was a significant decrease of about 15.5% in cash used for meals every seven days,

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a sharp rise of above 20% expenditure was for vacations, next was about 18% use for shelter,

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15% for transport. Household

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remained the same at around 8% in both years,

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others ( personal

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, fuel and power) fall within the range of 0-5%.