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 illustrates the weekly expenditure on eight aspects in 1968 and in 2018. The sum comes in the percentage of weekly income.

Overall

, the expenses

of

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for

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Food, Fuel and power, Clothing and

footware

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footwear

and Personal goods have dropped in the periods given. With the sharpest 15 per

cent

decrease witnessed in Food. On top of that, money spent on other aspects

such

as Housing, Transport and Leisure all increased

while

Leisure was the one with the biggest growth (10 per

cent

). In 1968, there used to be 35 per

cent

of the weekly income spent on Food, which was the largest weekly expense of the family.

However

, it merely accounted for 17 per

cent

of the expense in 2018.

On the other hand

, the largest expense in 2018 was on Leisure, with an obvious growth from 9 to 22 per

cent

after 50 years.

Last

but not least, Household and goods was the category that accounted for the exact same proportion (8 per

cent

) through the periods given.