The given bar chart illustrates the percentage of money that households in a country spent from their income on a weekly basis between 1968 and 2018
In general, the proportion of the income that was paid for foodstuff dropped the most significantly among the 8 categories.
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, the only genre that had the percentage stayed unchanged was household goods.
As can be seen from the data, Linking Words
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invested less and less money in food. 40% of their salaries splurging on eating and drinking remarkably decreased by nearly 20% after just 40 years. Use synonyms
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means the social development has supplied households with more food sources paralleling with the increase of other budgetary concerns that need addressing. Linking Words
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, there was a slight decline in the payment for the energies, which decreased from over 5% to 3% in the 40-year period. Shared a similar trend, private goods accounted for nearly 10% in 1968, after which it decreased to approximately 5% in 2018 and ranked the second among 3 expenses having the most remarkable decrease .
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' investment in leisure pursuits doubled ( from 10% to 20%) after 50 years. It is obvious that households gradually dipped into recreational activities in order to improve mental health. The more the society improved, the more expensive the accommodation was; Use synonyms
therefore
, Linking Words
families
were supposed to pay more for housing if they wanted to have a house to live in. Shared a similar fashion but to a smaller extent, The least dramatic growth was recorded for commuting which há increased by one-third by 2018. Use synonyms
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, Linking Words
families
devoted to household furniture 7% and it remained changed until the researched timeUse synonyms
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