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.

The bar chart illustrates the allocation of weekly household income across various expenditure categories in a specific country for the years 1968 and 2018.

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, the most amount of weekly income was spent on food

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the least

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was used for fuel and power in 1968. In 2018, families spent the most

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leisure costs

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they spent minimum

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on fuel power and personal goods.

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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%

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for household goods remained stable at around 8%.

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spending

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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

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on fuel and power by households fell marginally by around 2%.