The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

The given bar charts illustrate how the average families in one country expended their weekly salary in two different years which are 1968 and 2018.

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, a group of households tended to spend more on food in 1968 until it became the highest spent thing in that year, compared to money spent on leisure in 2018. Whilst the fuel and power made up the smallest one in those two shown periods. In regard to 1968, Food was the highest weekly spending item for about 30%, which was over double the rate for housing and clothing and footwear by 10%. Meanwhile, the income spent on leisure is 9%, 1% more than the figure

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transport, personal goods, and household goods.

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, the weekly expenditure on fuel and power recorded the lowest with 6%

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year. Turning to 2018,

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year became the turning table for food, since it had dropped dramatically to below 20% and surpassed by leisure which reached almost 25%.

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the weekly cost of clothing rapidly increased by nearly 20% in 2018, which is 5% more than that of transport weekly expenditure. Household good,

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, is the only type that remains stable, since it still had the same rate as in 1968. The remaining categories which show a decline in 2018 and became the least spent category by roughly 5% are clothing and footwear, personal goods, and fuel and power.