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 percentages of expenditure by families on their weekly pay in a country in the years 1968 and 2018.

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, there were eight sections including, food, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household goods, personal goods, transport, and leisure, on which families spent their remuneration. But the rates were not the same for those two different years. In the previous days, people used to spend more on food than any other things. As time went by, people focused to spend on leisure things mostly. So, from the graph, it can be stated that food was the top priority in the year 1968 since 35% of income per week was paid for that.

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, families from that time used only 6% of their salary in fuel and power.

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, they tend to spend the second highest rate of earnings on clothing and footwear

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on housing. Around 21% was spent on household goods, personal products, and transport and 9% spending was on free time. In 2018, the direction of households changed and they started to spend more on things that might entertain them during their leisure periods. They were

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less attracted to fuel and power like the people from 1968 but the matter to notice is they were way more concerned about their housing.