The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2017.
The column chart illustrates the weekly expenditures of households in a particular country in the years 1968 and 2017.
Overall
, most of the weekly income
was spent on food and leisure in 1968 and 2017 respectively. However
, families spent the lowest amount of their income
on fuel and power in both years.
To begin
with, the proportion of food was the highest at 35% in 1968, whereas
, this
figure was much lower in 2017 at 17%. Moreover
, 10% of families’ weekly income
was spent on housing in 1968, however
, it rose to nearly 19% in 2017. Besides
, fuel and power accounted for the lowest proportion in 1968 and 2017 with 6% and 4% respectively. Furthermore
, in 2017, families used to spend
twice as much money as families in 1968 on clothing Verb problem
spent
and
footwear and personal goods.
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In addition
, the percentage of weekly income
on household goods was equal at 7% in both years. Nonetheless
, the percentage of weekly expenditure on transport and leisure was higher by 5% and 14% respectively in 2017 than in 1968.Submitted by amirahmadi9301 on
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