The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.
The bar chart displays some data related to the way that citizens of a country spent their weekly
income
in two years.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the money was spent on food, housing, transport, and leisure more than other options in both years, and the food was by far the highest in the first year,
while
families tended to spend their
income
more on entertainment in 2018.
To begin
with, in 1968, people allocated 35 per cent of their weekly
income
to buying food, whilst it declined dramatically to only about 17% in 2018.
On the other hand
, the average weekly spending on housing and amusement was quite similar, at 10%, and they both inclined to nearly 19% and 22% respectively.
Moreover
, paying for transportation accounted for almost 15% in 2018,
however
, roughly 7% of weekly
income
was expended on it in 1968. In terms of fuel and power, clothing, and personal products, the percentages of money spent on them in 1968, were 6%, 10%, and 7%, and they all fell down to 4%, 5%, and 4%
accordingly
. Despite all these changes, the proportion of
income
spent on household goods remained the same in both years, at about 7%.
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