The chart below gives information about how families in one country spenttheir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, andmake comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the way households in one particular nation allocated their expenditures between 1968 and 2018.

Overall

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, it is noticeable that the data clearly provided an upward and downward during observations.

In addition

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, spending resources on housing, transport, and leisure increased, the percentage of weekly income of the rest participants actually dropped. In 1968, the financial requirements of meals reached exactly 35%, before the figure went downhill to a halved level in 2018.

On the other hand

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, it coincided with houses, vehicles and leisure that inclined just almost 50%, just under 15% and over two-fold, respectively.

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, clothing and footwear, fuel and power, and personal goods, at the lower levels, initiated their numbers ranging 5 to 10% and

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they experienced to decrease moderately at approximately 30% for 50 years; meanwhile, the remaining category levelled off at the same point, accounting for just above 7.5% of weekly income.