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 bar chart illustrates certain families’ consumerism for a period of one week in 1968 and 2018.

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, it can be seen that there was a different priority on which the

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had to be spent.

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, a fluctuation in the proportion of families’ weekly spending can be seen over the time given. In 1968, food had become the top priority to be bought each week, spending over one-third of one family’s income. The latter needs to be bought were housing stuff, and clothing and footwear, which each used 10% of their income. Followed by leisure, transport, personal and household

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, which held 9%, and 8% each for the three components respectively. The least prioritized was fuel and power which only took 6% of the total earnings. Contrary to 1968, the first commodity that took up the earnings in 2018 was leisure, which was 23%, followed by housing and food by slightly 4% and 6% respectively. Despite being not prioritized in 1968, the

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spent on transport rose to 14%

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year. Even though the need to spend

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on clothing and footwear was declining by 5%

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year, the

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spent on household

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stayed the same. The lowest consumption went to personal

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and fuel and power, making fuel and power the least prioritized

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to buy in both years.