The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart shows the proportion of weekly

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and to average spending of families in the USA for the period of five years. The first trend that can be clearly seen is the ratio of money spent on food, which was significantly lower in 2018 than in 1968 even with a doubled increase in weekly

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. The next major change in correlation between

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and spending is for leisure: the more people earned the more they preferred to spend their money on leisure activities. Through these years, the percentage of

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spent on it had been rising, up to over twenty

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from nearly ten. Another visible difference happened in the housing clause, people began to spend more money on real estate, at the same time increasing their weekly

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, the numbers are almost identical, both numbers went up twice from 1968. The three least changed fields were fuel and power, clothing and footwear,

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personal goods. In the first category, people after starting to earn more began to spend less on buying clothes and numbers went down by fifty

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. Fuel and power had the lowest percentage during these years and

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always lower than fifteen

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. The

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one, personal goods, in

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category weekly

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, didn't affect much the average weekly spending and declined from almost fifteen to less than ten.