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The 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 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.
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The bar chart provides data on the average weekly household expenditure of the citizens in the
year
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 1968 and 2018.
Overall
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,
it is clear that
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 the maximum portion of income was spent
behind
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on
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 food in 1968,
whereas
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 in the year
2018
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2018,
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 it was on leisure activities.
Spendings
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Spending
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 on fuel and power
are
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minimum
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 in both
the
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years. In terms of food, about 35% of income was spent in 1968,
while
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 in 2018 the percentage
drammatically
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dramatically
 went down to around 17%.
Expediture
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Expenditure
 on fuel and power, clothing and
footware
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footwear
 and personal goods
also
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 experienced almost a 50% decrease over the period.
On the other hand
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, leisure accounted
an
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 increase from 9% to 22% in 2018.
Additionaly
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Additionally
, housing
cost
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costs
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 almost doubled from 10% in 1968 to 19% in 2018.
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, spending
over
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 transport increased from around 8% to 14% in the year 1969 and 2018, respectively. Noticeably, expenditure
behind
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 household goods remained unchanged over the mentioned period of time.

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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • expenditure patterns
  • proportion
  • weekly income
  • accounted for
  • total expenditure
  • housing and utility expenses
  • transportation costs
  • other expenses
  • education
  • healthcare
  • leisure activities
  • spending patterns
  • witnessed a considerable rise
  • experienced a substantial increase
  • allocating a larger proportion
  • reducing their expenditure
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