The chart gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1986 and in 2018.

The bar graph illustrates the average weekly spending by families in an unspecified state from 1968 to 2018.

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, it is noticed that

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spending

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on food was the highest in the first given year

while

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other disburses were low. In 2018, leisure ranked

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top of the list. Notably, families tended to spend the least amount of expenditures on fuel and power throughout the period shown. In 1968, families spent roughly a third of their income on food, making it far higher than housing and clothing and footwear at 10%. Other options,

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as leisure, transportation, personal goods and household goods had a similar trend, being just under

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. In 2018, leisure led the majority of the proportions at almost a quarter. Housing ranked

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second at approximately 18%, followed by edibles accounting

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total of

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to 17%.

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, fuel

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power and personal items constitute a mere 4%.

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, clothing and footwear dropped to half during the period, reaching 5%,

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household products remained constant throughout the years at nearly 8%.