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 compares families in one country in terms of their average weekly spending between 1968 and 2018.

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, what stands out from the graph is that families spent most of their income on buying food in 1968, but spending on Leisure became the highest in 2018. Another striking feature is that spending on housing and transport saw an increase over the 40-year period. In 1968, families spent the majority of their income on food, at 35 %,

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the respective proportion of spending on fuel and power, children and footwear and personal

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were 10%, approximately 6% and close to 8 %. Over the following 40 years, the percentage of income spent on food witnessed a significant decline to around 18 %, and the figure for fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal

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experienced a downward trend. The other four top spending throughout the period shown on the chart were housing, household

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, transport and leisure. In 1968, the expenditures of these were 10 %, around 8 %, about 8 % and almost 10 % respectively. By 2018, leisure overtook the other three spending, with over 22 %,

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the statistic for housing rose rapidly to almost double the percentage of that in 1968, and spending on transport grew by around 6 %.

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, expenditure on household

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remained fairly stable, hovering at around 8 %.