The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart below compares the weekly consumption of eight items by a country's families between 1968 and 2018.

Overall

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, the expenditure on

food

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was the most paramount part in 1968,

however

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, leisure activities overtook it and became the most costly section of weekly costs in 2018. What's more, during

this

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fifty-year period, people always spent the least money on fuel and power. Looking into the data in more detail, in 1968, the weekly spending on

food

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accounted for 35% of the whole budget, more than one-

third,

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and no other item accounted for more than 10%.

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, in 2018, four items accounted for more than 10% of expenditures, namely

food

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, rental housing, transportation and leisure activities.

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, there are four features whose proportion of expenditure has decreased after fifty years, namely

Food

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, Clothing and footwear, Personal Goods and Fuel and Power. And three figures have increased their distribution of consumption, including housing , transport and leisure.

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but not least, the fraction of household goods spending remained consistently at 8%.