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

The bar chart represents the proportion of income spent by households during one week in one country in the years 1968 and 2018.

Overall

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it is clear that

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food

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was the highest proportion of spending in 1968,

while

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by 2018 the most popular thing was leisure. There were three items that experienced rising trends, which were housing transport and leisure respectively,

by contrast

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,

food

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, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods had downward trends throughout the whole period. In 1968, households spent 35 per

cent

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of their money on

food

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, and it was

also

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the biggest proportion of consumption, yet it decreased dramatically in 2018, which was close to 17 per

cent

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. Fuel and power,

as well as

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personal goods,

as well as

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personal goods, had the equivalent trend for

food

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, both dropped to just 4 per

cent

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.

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, households spent 9 per

cent

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of their money on leisure by 1968 which rose to 22 per

cent

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in 2018, which has the largest changes over the fifty-year period.

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, housing and transport accounted for 10 per

cent

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and 8 per

cent

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and grew to 19 per

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and 14 per

cent

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by the year 2018.