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.

A glance at the provided bar charts reveals eight categories, indicating how families spent their incomes on average in one country between 1968 and 2018. A series of enhancements and downturns in various

items

could be observed by proportion through these two years. With regard to those

items

that experienced a significant upward trend, it is evident that the life demand for people has changed over the past 50 years. Each rising item has at least escalated nearly an average of twofold in general. For housing, people only spent 10% of families income weekly in the year of 1968.

However

, the spending on housing had climbed to practically 20%.

Likewise

, the categories of transport and leisure went through a similar pattern to housing, especially leisure

items

, which witnessed a drastic boom from under 10 % to surpassing 20%. In stark contrast, when it comes to the categories that underwent apparent fall, suffered a considerable plummet of around twofold on average.

To begin

with, the

items

of clothing and footwear went down from 10% to 5% within 50 years, meanwhile, fuel and power decreased obviously

as well as

personal goods.

However

, household goods remained unchanged from 1968 to 2018 in the vicinity of 8%