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 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.
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illustrate
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that
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the allocation of weekly
familes
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families
family
budgets in
a
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one country in two different years(1968, 2018).
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, as can be seen from the graph
that
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families spent the largest portion of their
enarning
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earnings
earning
on
food
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in 1968, but
leisure
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occpied
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occupied
occupies
the largest portion
in
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the household spent weekly
slaries
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salaries
series
. In 1968,
food
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took the largest
reatio
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ratio
(35%), which was almost five times the
poration
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portion
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of
leisure
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spent by the
country
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household weekly
income
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. Over the following 50 years,
however
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,
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the
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food
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spent figure fell by approximately 17%,
whereas
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leisure
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spent
rise
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by about
similar
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a similar
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amount , which became
to
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the largest spent occupied the
familes
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family
weekly
income
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in 2018.
Then
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leisure
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beacame
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became
the
houshold
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household
in come
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income
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spent leader with weekly
slaries
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salaries
series
reaching around 23%, and housing
was
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overtook
the
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food
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spent , which increased from 10%(1968) to around 19% in 2018.
By
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other
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the other
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hands
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, there were four items of
families
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families'
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income
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spent that decreased or
remain
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stable between 1968 and 2018. Fuel and power, clothing and foot,
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and persomal
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persomal
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personal
good all declined between 1968 and 2018, from about 6%, 10%,
7
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and 7
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%, to 4%, 5%,
4
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and 4
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% respectively. Precisely speaking, household goods
reamin
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remain
remained
stable at approximately 8%
between
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during
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this
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period., and transport spent in the
families
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family's
families'
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weekly
income
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increased by 7% to
aboout
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about
14
at the end
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of
period
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.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words food, leisure, income with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "stable" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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