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 bar chart illustrates data regarding the percentage of average weekly spending by families in one nation in the years 1968 and 2018.

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, it can be seen that the proportion of weekly income spent on food, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal

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experienced an apparent downward tendency,

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the figure for housing, transport, and leisure displayed a significant increase throughout the period. Noticeably, the number of household

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remained relatively stable. Looking at the diagram in more detail, in 1968, residents spent 35% of their weekly wages on daily food, which was approximately 6 times that of fuel and power. In the following 50 years, the former declined by nearly 18%,

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the counterpart of the latter dropped slightly by 2%. In terms of the spending distributed to clothing and footwear and personal

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, they witnessed a decrease, with them dwindling to 5% and 4% respectively.

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the picture, the percentage of weekly salaries spent on housing increased from 10% in 1968 to about 19% in 2018.

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, leisure spending, which ranked fourth in 1968, saw an increment of 13%

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of the period, followed by 6% for transport.

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, the figure for household

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was stagnant, with it being 8% for 50 years.