The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.
The bar chart illustrates the average weekly money used by families in the
year
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1968 and 2018. Looking from
overall
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an overall
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perspective, it is readily apparent that most of
spending
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was
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dropped,
while
the remaining
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rose. The difference in
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of spending varied most in food,
while
household goods remained unchanged. In 1968, food was spent most with 35% of families income before
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to above 15% in 2018.
While
fuel and power were the lowest spend with above 5% and decrease to below 5% in the next 50 years. Personal goods (over 5%), and fuel and power (nearly 5%)
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declined to below 5%
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.
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, 10% of housing
were
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spent in 1968 which was half used in 2018. In terms of transport and
leisure
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both were just below 10% and
then
rose to approximately 15% and more than 20%, respectively in 2018.
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the other hand, household goods were unaltered at just above 5%.
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