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 bar chart illustrates family expenditure allocation on a weekly basis, between 1968 and 2018. First and foremost, the behaviour of spending has drastically changed. In 2018, households

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less on meals, by nearly 18%, compared to 50 years ago.

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, people in recent years have allocated their earnings more to residency and leisure, accounting for 18% and 22%, respectively.

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, the shifting of preferences

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appeared in other sectors,

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as fashion. As shown, families tend to cut half of their budget for clothing and footwear in 2018.

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, in 1968, except for food, families consumed their weekly income by 10% and under for all spending sectors. Money budgeted for fuel and electricity-related and personal goods were stranded to the lowest spending, just around 4% of

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each. Despite the shifting in household expenses between those two years, there was a stagnant allocation of domestic goods which remained at approximately 8%.