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

The bar graph shows the weekly average expenditure made by families in relation to their salaries in 1968 and 2018 in a certain country.

Overall

, the spending experienced many changes over time. It can be seen that

food

was the most important expenditure in 1968

while

in 2018 it changed to leisure with

also

a huge difference in the percentages designated to these categories.

Besides

this

, in 2018 categories

such

as housing and transport increased considerably compared to 1968,

whereas

food

, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal

goods

decreased their percentages by 2018.

Finally

, the only category that did not experiment with any changes was household

goods

.

To begin

with, in 1968, families spent most of their salary on

food

, representing 35% of the total, followed by clothing and footwear and housing, which shared the same percentage of 10%. In fourth place, leisure represented just under 10%,

whereas

household and personal

goods

as well as

transport represented around 8% respectively.

Finally

, the least expenditure was on fuel and power, which was just over 5%.

On the other hand

, in 2018, the biggest spending was related to leisure activities, which was over 20% of the total income. The second position was occupied by housing with just under 20%, followed by

food

with over 15% and

then

by transport, with an index of just under 15%. Regarding household

goods

,

this

category represented the same index that it was in 1968 of 8%. Clothing and footwear represented 5%.

Finally

, personal

goods

and fuel and power shared the same percentage of almost 5% of the total income.