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
, it is clear that
food
was the highest proportion of spending in 1968, while
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
, food
, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods had downward trends throughout the whole period.
In 1968, households spent 35 per cent
of their money on food
, and it was also
the biggest proportion of consumption, yet it decreased dramatically in 2018, which was close to 17 per cent
. Fuel and power, as well as
personal goods,as well as
personal goods, had the equivalent trend for food
, both dropped to just 4 per cent
.
In addition
, households spent 9 per cent
of their money on leisure by 1968 which rose to 22 per cent
in 2018, which has the largest changes over the fifty-year period. Furthermore
, housing and transport accounted for 10 per cent
and 8 per cent
and grew to 19 per cent
and 14 per cent
by the year 2018.Submitted by Joanna
on
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