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

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compares the average weekly

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by families in a particular country during 2 different years in 8 various categories.

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, in 1968 the highest

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percentage belonged to food

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fuel

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and

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by far had the lowest percentage.

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, in 2018 the leisure category had the highest percentage but identically

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to household

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with, in 1968, 35% of families' spending was allocated to food supplies

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with a considerable difference 10% of the family budget was spent on housing, and clothing and footwear

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, about 9% of spent money was allocated to 4 other categories including leisure, transport, personal

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and household

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. Eventually, by about 6% of

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spot among the others. The trend changed by reaching 2018, when about 22% of families' funding was allocated to leisure in comparison to 1968, following that, respectively 18% was spent on housing ,and 16% on food. The third highest rank was allocated to household

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by around 8%

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3 other categories including clothing and footwear,

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and personal good by less than 5% had the lowest amount of average

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