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 diagram compares the proportion of the weekly expenditure in the family in two different years.
Overall
, it is clear that
the percentage of the cost of food saw a massive drop, while
the money spent on entertainment experienced a significant rise.
Looking at the diagram more closely, one can see that the expenditure on cooking sharply decreased from 35% to 17%, while
the leisure fee was raised from roughly 8% to 22%. In addition
, the house spending is almost doubled, the same as the transport cost. Furthermore
, there are some categories that have a small drop, the spending on clothing, private goods and power is reduced by almost half the number in 1998. Finally
, the expenditure on household goods remained in the same proportion.Submitted by vincent3725416 on
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