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

The bar chart compares how people of one specific country devote their weekly

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for different reasons in two different years.

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, it is evident that families spent the highest per cent of their income on food consumption and recreation in 1968 and 2018, respectively.

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, the fuel and power category was the lowest amount in both years.

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the chart, the population of

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country spent 35% of their weekly

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eating in 1968.

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, each of the housing and clothing groups had 10% of expenditures. Anyhow these individuals spent almost 9% of their money on leisure and

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personal stuff, household goods and transport took the same amount by 8% in 1968.

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, they considered leisure, housing and food as the biggest shares of their

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by almost 23%, 19%, and 17%, respectively in 2018. Interestingly, transport, housing and leisure costs increased as compared to the year 1968.

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, fuel and power, personal goods and clothing expenditures were reduced somehow and household goods had the same percentage of their

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in both years.