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 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 chart illustrates the average weekly spending income in a special country by some different families.
Overall
, it can be seen that, in 1968 most families spent lots of their money on food,
while
they would rather pay more attention to other necessary needs in the following 5 decades. In 1968, the amount of food was the highest in 35,
although
that of fuel and power was the least roughly in 5.
Furthermore
, the share of housing and clothing and footwear remained the same, and
then
other sections
such
as leisure, transport, personal
goods
and household
goods
were approximately between 5 and 10. In 2018, the number of food witnessed a decline of half of its value,
whereas
that of leisure, and housing experienced substantial growth of nearly twice their number.
Moreover
, the proportion of fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal
goods
were
about
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between 3 and 5.
According to
the other 2 sections, the amount of housing
goods
remained unchanged, whilst that of transport went up by almost 5.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words goods with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "remained" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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