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 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 chart provides details about the expenditures of
familes
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families
in on
certian
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certain
country in two
diffrent
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different
periods. The data is
prvoides
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provided
in terms of
percentage
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the percentage
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of the weekly income.
Overall
, from the chart it is obvious that people
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used
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to spend more on necessities like food or housing,
however
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however,
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it did not stay the same
untill
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until
2018. In 2018 people valued
leusure
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leisure
pleasure
and transport more. In 1968, individuals spent above a third of their money on food which declined by nearly 20% in 2018.
Similarly
,
this
trend was obvious for fuel and power, clothing and
footware
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footwear
and personal goods which experienced a fall of approximately 3%, 5% and 4% approximately. Regarding houses,
although
there was a sharp growth in housing, increasing from 10% in 1968 to close to 18% in 2018, household goods saw a slight climb of about under 1%. The biggest increase was in transport and leisure which the proportion doubled and trebled respectively.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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