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

The chart below gives information about how families on one country spent their weekly income 1968 and in 2018
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The chart illustrates data about how households spent their weekly earning in different 8 sectors (
food
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, housing
fuel
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and
power
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,clothing and footwear,household
goods
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, personal
goods
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, transport, and
leisure
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) in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
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, it can be seen that the families' expenditure on
food
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,
fuel
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and
power
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, clothing and footwear and personal
goods
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was more in 1968 compared to 2018
while
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households spent less money on housing,transport, and
leisure
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in 1968 than in 2018. The highest amount of income was spent on
food
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in 1968,
whereas
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in 2018 it is
leisure
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.
Similarly
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, the least amount of salary was spent on
fuel
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and
power
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in 1968
while
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it was personal
goods
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as well as
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fuel
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and
power
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in 2018. First of all, in 1968, a family spent 35% of their salary on
food
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, 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
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, clothing and footwear costs plunged to 5% in 2018 from 10% in 1968 and in terms of personal
goods
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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.
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, the biggest increase witnessed in
leisure
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to nearly 23% in 2018 where it was below 10% in 1968.
However
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, the household
goods
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costs remained unchanged in 1968 and in 2018.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words food, fuel, power, goods, leisure with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "fall" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Weekly income
  • Expenditure
  • Consumption patterns
  • Cost of living
  • Discretionary spending
  • Inflation
  • Economic indicators
  • Demographics
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Technology advancements
  • Government policies
  • Consumerism
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Fiscal habits
  • Budget allocation
  • Financial priorities
  • Societal trends
  • Purchasing power
  • Income distribution
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