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

The chart illustrates data about how households spent their weekly earning in different 8 sectors (

food

, housing

fuel

and

power

,clothing and footwear,household

goods

, personal

goods

, transport, and

leisure

) in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, it can be seen that the families' expenditure on

food

,

fuel

and

power

, clothing and footwear and personal

goods

was more in 1968 compared to 2018

while

households spent less money on housing,transport, and

leisure

in 1968 than in 2018. The highest amount of income was spent on

food

in 1968,

whereas

in 2018 it is

leisure

.

Similarly

, the least amount of salary was spent on

fuel

and

power

in 1968

while

it was personal

goods

as well as

fuel

and

power

in 2018. First of all, in 1968, a family spent 35% of their salary on

food

, but it witnessed a dramatic fall to nearly half in 2018. At the same, family expenditures fell to around 4% in 2018 from over 5% in 1968.

In addition

, clothing and footwear costs plunged to 5% in 2018 from 10% in 1968 and in terms of personal

goods

it fell to roughly 4% in 2018 from almost 8% in 1968. Convergently,in 2018, families' expenditure on housing rose to double from 10% in 1968 to 20% in 2018.In a similar fashion ,regarding transport, it is just below 15% and approximately 10% in 2018 and 1968 respectively.

Nonetheless

, the biggest increase witnessed in

leisure

to nearly 23% in 2018 where it was below 10% in 1968.

However

, the household

goods

costs remained unchanged in 1968 and in 2018.