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

The bar chart illustrates how families spent their salaries in a country between the years 1968 and 2018.

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, there were eight different areas where families spent their income each week, every unit measured in

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such

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as food,housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household

goods

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, personal

goods

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, transport and leisure. The highest outcome was on food, leisure and housing unlike less spent on fuel, power and personal

goods

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, every family spent their income mostly on food which was exactly 35 percent in 1968 but later it showed a huge reduction of nearly 15 percent in 2018. The highest expense occurred on leisure from almost 8 per

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to 22 per

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. Fuel and power showed the smallest change about 6 per

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to 5 per

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. In 2018 expense reduction on clothing was

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extremely

extremly

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extremely

noticeable almost half compared to 1968

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, the expense of transport increased from 8 per

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to 14 per

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, housing was another increase which around doubled

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, all the changes in household

goods

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remained the same from 1968 to 2018