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 given bar chart illustrates the percentage of weekly expenses per household in one particular country for two years: in 1968 and 2018. It can be clearly seen that there are significant changes from 1968 to 2018. In the former year, people spend most of their income on buying

food

,

however

, in the

later

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year, leisure accounts

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largest proportion of categories. Turning to the graph in more detail, by 2018, the percentage of

food

had dramatically decreased from 35% to 17%,

whereas

that of housing and leisure had increased by 8% and 16% respectively.

This

means that in 2018, people tend to spend much more money on leisure, surpassing the proportion of

food

. Another noticeable feature is that in 1968, the figures for all sorts, except for

food

never exceeded 10%. Between 1968 and 2018, the proportion of transport

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experienced a climb to about 14%

while

that of household goods remained stable.

In addition

, there was a descent in the figures for fuel and power, clothing including

footware

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footwear

, and personal goods by 2%, 5% and 4% each.