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

The bar chart provides information on the proportion of weekly income

that is

spent on eight categories over a fifty-year period.

Overall

, we can see that income in the late nineteen century is largely spent on food, which is a third more than other categories combined,

whereas

the largest spending attributed in 2018 is leisure, housing and food, in comparison with twice the figures in the remaining categories. More than a third of earnings went towards eating, which is significantly more than all the figures combined. Followed by spending made towards clothing and footwear (10%) and housing (10%). Household and personal goods, transport and leisure consist of roughly 7 per

cent

of spending respectively,

while

the remaining figure of more than 5 per

cent

is attributed towards fuel and power. Almost half of the people’s earnings in 2018 were spent on Leisure, Housing and Food, ranging from 16 to 22 per

cent

respectively. 15% of expenditure went towards transport. Household products remain at the same level and a 5 per

cent

decrease in personal goods,

while

clothing and footwear, power and fuel remained within five per

cent

.