The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summerise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart illustrates the eight aspects that families spent their weekly income in a particular country from 1968 to 2018.

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, food proved to be the main expenditure that those families decided to spend their money on in 1968, but, in 2018, leisure activity climbed up to be the highest expenditure, which had overtaken food.

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food was recorded as the highest source that families spent their weekly income

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, which accounted for 35% in 1968, it fell to just above 15% in 2018. In a similar fashion, the other three expenditures that experienced a decline in their popularity were clothing and footwear, personal goods, and fuel and power. Interestingly, the only source that remained unchanged throughout the given time period was household goods, making up about 8%. Meanwhile, leisure activity had a considerable rise, tripling from nearly 8% in 1968. The remaining categories that

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increased over five decades were housing and transport, with about 9% growth for the former and approximately a 6% rise for the latter.