The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar graph illustrates how a state's families maintained their income

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different domestic sectors in 1968 and 2018.

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, The rates of residents' spend on housing, transport, and leisure showed

upward

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an upward

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trend,

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food, fuel and power, clothing and

footware

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footwear

, and personal

goods

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followed the opposite trend over the given period. In 1968, the people spent

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of their earnings on purchasing food, which accounted for 35%; leisure,

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, had become the highest expenditure source, at 22% in 2018, and the percentages of transport and housing followed a similar trend as leisure; these were 10% and 9% in 1968, and 19% and 14% in 2018. The proportion of fuel and power and personal

goods

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was almost similar, at 4% in 1968;

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they started to increase and reached 6% and 9% for fuel and power and personal

goods

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, in the year 2018, respectively. Spending on household

goods

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remained unchanged over the given fifty-year period.