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 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 presented chart indicates some data about the average revenue consumed by families every week from 1968 to 2018.
Overall
, it can be seen that the most progressive trend belongs to the food,
whereas
the people`s income for household goods has been stable after these 50 years. Considering the people`s income on the housing and the leisure, these categories revenue has been drastically increased from approximately 10% to 20%. Money consumption for Fuel and power and personal goods has slightly dropped from about 14% to 4%. It seems remarkable that the most decrease happened in Clothing which was halved during these years. In conclusion, we can figure out that nowadays, most people spend their salaries on their leisure activities.
While
people were keen on spending their income to buy food for themselves.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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