You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent 

their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.
The bar chart illustrates data on the weekly expenditure of various families living in one country in 2 different years, particularly 1968 and 2018.
Overall
,
although
in 1968 the biggest part of
money
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was spent on food, in 2018
this
position was replaced with leisure activities. To start, the maximum of
this
chart was observed in 1968 and was represented by food consumption constituting exactly 35%.Expenses on household and clothing and footwear were equal to 10% which was the second highest result for that year.
In addition
, household
goods
, personal
goods
, transport
as well as
leisure owe the same position of approximately 8%,
while
almost 6% of income was spent on fuel and power. The top 3 positions on which the biggest part of the weekly income was spent in 2018 belonged to leisure, housing and food which comprised about 23%, 19% and 17% respectively.
Moreover
, transport expenses made up nearly 15%
in contrast
with household
goods
which made up 7%. Fewest money was spent on fuel and power and personal
goods
, particularly less than 5%
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