The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The graph demonstrates the average weekly spending of families on

food

, housing,

fuel

and

power

, clothing and footwear, household

goods

, personal

goods

, transport and

leisure

in one country in 2 different

years

.

Overall

, it can be observed that families spent the largest part of their

income

on

food

in 1968 and after 50

years

it changed to

leisure

. People spent a small amount of money on

fuel

and

power

in 1968 and it was almost stable after

years

.

According to

the data, the two highest amounts of spending in 1968 were for

food

, which was 35% of weekly

income

and for housing, clothing and footwear which was 10%. The least spending in that year was on

fuel

and

power

, which was only a little bit more than 5% and it was spent between 5-10% of weekly

income

on other consumptions like household

goods

, personal

goods

, transport and

leisure

. There were big changes in spending on

leisure

, housing and

food

after 50

years

.

Food

consumption decreased twice and only around 15% was spent on it,

whereas

spending money on

leisure

increased twice and more than 20% was spent on it by families. Spending on housing rose to approximately 20% of weekly

income

from 10%. There was a small change in spending on transportation, it

also

rose to around 15%.

In contrast

, other spending like personal

goods

,

fuel

and

power

, clothing and footwear reduced in 2018 and showed up to 5% of

income

. It should be mentioned, that household

goods

remained stable and showed between 5-10% of

income

in both

years

.