The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of families's income in a week in one country devoted to 8 different items in 1968 and 2018.

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, it can be clearly seen that people spent most of their revenue on food in 1968,

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in 2018, it changed to leisure.

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, the amount of money which was spent on food, fuel and power, clothing and

footware

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footwear

and personal

goods

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declined,

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there was a rise in housing, household

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and transport. In 1968, individuals spent above a third of their money on food which declined by nearly 20% in 2018.

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,

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trend was obvious for fuel and power, clothing and

footware

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footwear

and personal

goods

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which experienced a fall of approximately 3%, 5% and 4% approximately. Regarding houses,

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there was a sharp growth in housing, increasing from 10% in 1968 to close to 18% in 2018, household

goods

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saw a slight climb of about under 1%. The biggest increase was in transport and leisure which the proportion doubled and trebled respectively.