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 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
.
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Introduction: The chart intro is missing.
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Introduction: The chart intro is missing.
Vocabulary: Replace the words food, fuel, power, goods, leisure, years, income with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "showed" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "changed" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "stable" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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