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.

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.
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A glance at the bar graph delineates statistics about the commensurability of families' expenditure during a week in an unnamed country in 1968 and five decades later.
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, it can be explicitly perceived that spending on food and leisure time had the most enthusiasts in 1968 and 2018, respectively,
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the lowest budget was allocated to fuel and power in both years. Looking into the details, the families craved food dominantly with respect to the other parameters in 1968, with 35% of their income, whilst they altered their favourites in 2018 by expending approximately 22 per cent of that. Concerning the
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, clothing and footwear, and housing activities were the same in the year 1968, at a percentage of 10 per week.
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, the latter could staggeringly retain its interest in the people in 2018 by virtually 18%.
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was followed by the other parameters, which eventually culminated in a common thread as the
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position, fuel and power, in 1968 at a relatively negligible 4%. In a similar scenario in 2018, the budget for fuel and power kept rising moderately at some 11%. It is noteworthy that the other parameters, namely housing, clothing and footwear, household goods, personal goods, and transport, took between the factors mentioned above with fluctuated amounts over these years.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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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