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

The pie graph illustrates the percentage of the weekly budget that families in one country spent on eight categories in 1968 and 2018.

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, in 1968 the most amount of money people invested in was on food,

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

prefer

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preferred

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to spend most of their income on leisure,

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the least amount of money was spent on personal goods

and

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apply

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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.

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, when it comes to clothing and

footware

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footwear

and personal goods, there was a decrease from 10% to 5% and from around 8% to 4% respectively. Meanwhile, 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 the figure 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%. In the case of transport, it climbed from 8% to 14%.