The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent  their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.
The bar chart compares information about in one country how
families
spent their weekly budget in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the highest proportion of spending was on food and the least was on fuel and power. Regarding food, in 1968
families
spent 35% of their weekly
income
and
this
figure declined to about 17% in 2018. Turning to housing, 10% of weekly
income
was spent in 1968 and it increased sed to around 19% in 2018. In household goods,
families
spent the same, at about 8% in both 1968 and 2018. In 1968,
families
spent about 9% of their weekly
income
on transport and in 2018,
this
figure increased to 14%. In leisure,
families
spent 9% of their
income
in 1968 and
this
figure grew gradually to about 22%. Regarding clothing and footwear, in 1968 they spent 10% of their
income
and in 2018 it decreased to 5%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Weekly income
  • Expenditure
  • Consumption patterns
  • Cost of living
  • Discretionary spending
  • Inflation
  • Economic indicators
  • Demographics
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Technology advancements
  • Government policies
  • Consumerism
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Fiscal habits
  • Budget allocation
  • Financial priorities
  • Societal trends
  • Purchasing power
  • Income distribution
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