the chart below gives infromation about how families in one country spent threir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

the chart below gives infromation about how families in one country spent threir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.
The bar chart compares the expenditure of the
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of
families
in eight different categories in the 1968 and the 2018 years.
Overall
,
while
the percentage of income which was spent in 1968 was higher in almost all categories, the number of expenditures in 2018 was lower.
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the
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food spending, in 1968
families
used to spend the biggest proportion, exactly 35%, which is slightly higher than in 2018, when it was a little bit more than 15%. For housing, they spent 10% in 1968,
however
, in 2018,
this
number became bigger almost 20%. Regarding fuel and power, in 1968, the percentage consisted of 10%, which is twice lower than in 2018, 5%. For household goods in both years,
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expenses were similar. The personal goods rate was approximately 8% in 1968, but
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in 2018 was smaller, nearly 4%.
Families
spent almost 10% of their budget on transport in 1968, which is relatively lower than in 2018, where
this
number consisted of almost 15%.
Finally
, the leisure results of 1968 showed around 8%,
however
in 2018,
this
rate was much higher, 23%.
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