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 compares the percentage of spending per week by households in a country in two years, 1968 and 2018. There were eight categories

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some of the categories of spending increased, others decreased. The categories with a downward trend included food, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal goods. Food was the group of highest spending percentage in 1968 yet it saw the most significant decrease, from 35% to about 17% in 2018.

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, spending on clothing and footwear in 2018 was only half as much as that of 1968. The figures for fuel and power or personal goods were no higher than 10% in both years.

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, the percentages of expenditure on housing, transport and leisure rose sharply in general. In 1968, only around 8% of the weekly income went to leisure but the figure was greater than 20% in 1968. The percentages of housing and transport were no more than 10% in 1968 but in 2018 they both increased to about 18% and 14%, respectively. Household goods was the only category that remained unchanged after 50 years, at around 8%.