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

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families' weekly income was spent in a country in 1968 and 2018. In general, the most significant expenditure in 1968 was on food,

while

in 2018, people mostly spent their money on leisure.

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the figure, in 1968 eating was the most important part of the week, resulting in families allocating 35% of their income to buy food. They allocated the same amount of money for housing and buying clothes and shoes which accounted for 10% of the total. The expenditure in other categories was almost the same, each less than 9

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, the lowest spending was

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fuel and power, which was about 6%. As can be seen, in 2018, people mostly spent their money

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their free time, which accounted

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22

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.

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year, families spent about two times more of their income on housing

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to fifty years before by around 20%.

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fuel and power cover a smaller portion of the spending, by only 4

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