The bar 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.

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budget that families in one country spent on eight various parts of life in 1968 and 2018.

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, in 1968 the most amount of money people spent on food,

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the least part of their budget was spent on fuel and power. In 2018 people prefer to

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most of their income on leisure,

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the least shared between personal goods and fuel and power.

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the chart, the percentage of income spent on food reduced from 35% to around 17% over the entire time period, the same trend experienced clothing and

footware

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and personal goods, there was a decrease from 10% to 5% and from around 8% to 4%, respectively. Spending on fuel and power fell slightly by 2% in 2018.

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, the figures for household goods remained the same throughout the period.

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, there was a significant increase in figures for leisure from approximately 9% in 1968 to 23% in 2018.

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the percentage spent on housing experienced the same pattern and rose by 9%, followed by transport from 8% to 14% during the provided time period.