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 above displays and compares how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2018.

According to

the chart, the variations in food, housing and leisure were remarkable,

while

other items, like transport or clothes expenses, were steady or not noticeable.

For example

, in both 1968 and 2018, the percentages of household goods were the precisely same 8%. The proportion of clothing and footwear decreased from 10% in 1968 to 5% in 2018, and the decreasing degree of fuel and power, personal goods was smaller, all lower than 5%. As for other items, as mentioned before, saw noticeable changes. For illustration, the percentage of food was 35% in 1968, which significantly dropped to merely 17% in 2018.

On the contrary

, those of housing and leisure rose from 10% to about 20% and 9% to over 20%, respectively.