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.

Given is a graph concerning life expenditures. It provides a comparison between diverse life expenditures that families’

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was spent during a week in a given nation in 1968 and 2018. Of these life expenditures, food was the most popular for families since more than a third of family

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at 35% was dedicated to it in 1968. In the second stage were housing and clothing 20% were spent on them in total. Yet by far, the least

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was dedicated to Household goods, personal goods, transport, Pastime activities and fuel at approximately 8% separately. In stark contrast ,

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, families’ preferences altered in 2018. Apparent is the fact that food lost its popularity among families and spending on it dropped to just 16%. contrastingly, rather than spending a mere 7% of

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on pastime activities, it tripled, reaching 22% in 2018.

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, compared to 10% in 1968, dedicating more money to housing had a tendency to climb, attracting 19% of salaries in 2018. Meanwhile, spending money on personal goods, energy, clothing and footwear plunged to less than 5% the same year