The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

The given bar chart illustrates the weekly expenses of family members in a country separated into eight categories in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, the trend showed that the most spending in 1968 was on food,

while

the least was

fuel

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on fuel

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energy.

Moreover

, in 2018, it can be seen that people spent their money on leisure activities and only limited spending on fuel and personal

goods

. Starting in 1968, the majority of household members tended to use their weekly perks for buying food and drinks at 35%, followed by housing expenses and entertainment activities in their leisure time were around 10%.

In addition

, the percentage of household, personal

goods

, and transportation were exactly the same approximately above 5%.

On the other hand

, the trend has changed over 40 years later, in 2018, when they went out the most to do leisure activities the most spending by almost a quarter.

However

, the allocated salary for fuel power and personal

goods

in a week was slightly below 5%. Interestingly, in both years, the family members purchased a similar number of household

goods

by under 10%