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. Write at least 150 words.
The bar chart illustrates the allocation of weekly household income across various expenditure categories in a specific country for the years 1968 and 2018.
Overall
, the most amount of weekly income was spent on food while
the least money
was used for fuel and power in 1968. In 2018, families spent the most money
for
leisure costs Change preposition
on
whereas
they spent minimum money
on fuel power and personal goods.
According to
the bar chart, from 1968 to 2018, transport and leisure expenditures increased significantly from about 9% to around 14% and 22%, respectively. In the same period, spending weekly income by the household for housing rose dramatically from 10% to just under 20% while
giving money
for household goods remained stable at around 8%.
It is clear that
spending money
on food experienced the biggest decrease from 35% to around 16% between 1968 and 2018. Clothing and footwear expenditure fell from 10% to 5% and personal goods expenditure dropped by around 4% from 1968 to 2018. Same period, the amount of spending money
on fuel and power by households fell marginally by around 2%.Submitted by yito18750 on
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