The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2018.

The bar chart depicts the average weekly expense for households in a specific country during 1968 and 2018. There are 8 different types of expenses, comprised of

food

, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household goods, personal goods, transport, and leisure. Unit is measured in percentage. In general, the biggest weekly expense in 1968 was

food

.

However

, their habit of spending their income was shifted to leisure activities

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later.

In addition

, people’s spending on fuel and power has consistently been the smallest portion over the given year.

Food

was a notable expense category in 1968, it accounted for 35% of

overall

expenses.

On the contrary

, leisure was the largest expenditure in 2018 and

food

became the third rank (~17%).

Furthermore

, in 1968, the rest of the categories only accounted for less than 10% of weekly earnings in each category.

Besides

, fuel and power were the least family’s spending in 1968 and 2018. Even so, the expenditure was reduced by ~2%, from 6% to 4%. Followed by personal goods was 7% and 4% in 1968 and 2018, respectively.