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

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, 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

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

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as Housing, Transport and Leisure all increased

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Leisure was the one with the biggest growth (10 per

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). In 1968, there used to be 35 per

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

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, it merely accounted for 17 per

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of the expense in 2018.

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

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after 50 years.

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

cent

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) through the periods given.