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 shows the average weekly spending by families in a specific country in 1968 and 2018. It is evident that fuel and power

accounts

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account

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for the least proportion of weekly spending in both years.

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, leisure saw the largest growth from 1968 to 2018. In 1968, families spent a significant amount of weekly income on

food

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, with 35%.

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the other seven figures were all lay between 5% to 10%, they were evenly distributed in the spending in 1968.

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, in 2018, leisure replaced

food

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to become the largest spending, which was approximately 22% of the weekly income. Followed by housing(19%),

food

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(17%), and transport(14%). The

remained

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remaining

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4 categories were all less than 10%, with fuel and power having the smallest percentage(4%). Looking at the trend in the 40 years, the proportion of

the

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apply

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leisure

expense

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expenses

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became

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has

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double

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doubled

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.

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, housing and transport spending grew almost double.

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food

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, clothing and

footware

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footwear

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personal

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and personal

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goods

fall

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fell

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almost 50%, the percentage of weekly income spent on household goods remained unchanged.