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 table shows the spending of families by week in the year 1968 and 2018. The most prevalent change from 1968 to 2018 is that

people

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are spending less

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to buy items

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as clothing and goods, but are spending more on housing and leisure. There’s a very noticeable drop in the budget for food, from 35% in 1968 to just over 15% in 2018. A similar trend can be seen in clothing and footwear and

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personal goods, each showing around a 5% decrease. Fuel and power is

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a category where

people

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spent less

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on, being slightly lower but still ranging around 5%.

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,

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in 2018 spent noticeably more

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on housing, transport, and leisure. All of these categories doubled their budget in 2018 in comparison to 1968. Despite the changes, the

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spent on household goods stayed stagnant at around 7% of the total weekly sum. In conclusion, we can see that

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spent their

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differently in 1968 and 2018. The income that families in 1968 got is mainly spent on food,

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in 2018

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are mainly spending their

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on housing and leisure.