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 given presents data about households' weekly earnings spending in a specific nation in 1968 and in 2018. All in all, it is obvious that food was the 1968's top families' expenditure yet the figure dropped significantly in 2018.

On the contrary

, modern households of 2018 spent most of their weekly income on leisure activities, which is a double surge from the year 1968. Focusing on downward trends, in 1968, families' income was dominantly used to buy food at 35% shares, followed by clothing necessities at 10% shares. After 50 years, these two expenses decreased dramatically to approximately 17% and 5% respectively.

Moreover

, the budget for personal goods

also

dropped by half from nearly 8% to 4%. Moving on to the upward trends, there were notable uplifts in housing, transport, and leisure expenditures. In 1968, accommodation and commute expenses only comprised no more than 11% of the weekly revenue,

thereafter

they raised to 19% and 14% respectively. Leisure expenses, which previously was the third smallest percentage in 1968, became the major spending in 2018 with almost 23% of money allocated.