The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Sunnarise the information by selecting and reporting the main fertures, and make conparisons where relevant.
The diagram compares the percentages of weekly revenue expenditure on eight various categories by families in one particular country in the years 1968 and 2018.
Overall
, the most substantial change belonged to food
. However
, fuel and power changed the least. The share allocated to food
ranked first in 1968, although
it was overtaken by leisure in 2018.
Initially
, the figure for four categories containing household goods
, personal goods
, transport and leisure were approximately equal at 8%. While
there was a considerable increase of about 6% and 14% in transport and leisure, respectively, personal goods
saw a decline to 4% and household goods
remained stable.
The figure for housing was equal to that for clothing and footwear at 10% in 1968. The former experienced a significant rise to 19% whereas
, the latter moderately fell to %6.
At first,
food
and housing stood at 30% and 10%, respectively. Food
plummeted to 17%, but there was a growth of almost 10% in housing.Submitted by samira.nezhadamin on
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