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
The graph illustrates and compares the expenditure of the family's weekly income in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
, we observe that in 1968 majority of the money was spent on purchasing Food items, and in 2018 it was for Leisure activities.
Moreover
, for both years the proportion of the salary that was spent on
the
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Household products was nearly
same
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.
However
, House rents took away more money from the total earnings in 2018 compared to 1968. In 1968, exactly 35% of the total weekly earnings was used for the purchase of food, in 2018
this
figure was close to 15%. Out of every 100Rs earned every week in 2018, more than 20Rs was utilized to pay for Leisure activity, and approximately 17.5Rs on goods for a house,
this
particular number was similar during 1968
also
. Renting was consuming 10% of the entire salary in 2018, but in 1968
this
was almost 9% more.
In addition
, roughly 18% of the 7 days revenue generated by a family was used for paying bills for Transportation, Fuel, and Power, in 1968 and 2018.
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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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