WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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 proportion of household expenditure in one country spent their weekly salary in two different years in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, in 1968,

families

spent a huge amount of their weekly

income

on food,

while

in 2018,

families

spent their weekly salary on buying or renting either a house or apartment and

also

spent on leisure.

However

, in both years

families

spent equally of their weekly

income

on household goods.

Firstly

, in 1968, food had the highest percentage of weekly purchases by households with 35 per cent,

while

families

in 2018 spent only 14 per cent of their weekly

income

. People in 1968, spent most of their weekly

income

on clothing, power and personal goods more than people in 2018, which were 10%, 8% and 6% respectively,

while

in 2018, were only 5%, 4% and 4% of their weekly spending.

Secondly

, households in 2018, spent a lot of their weekly

income

on their leisure time more than

families

in 1968, which was 22% in 2018, and only 8% in 1968.

Additionally

, by 2018, housing came to second place in weekly spending with 19%, and following that, was transportation which was 14% of their weekly

income

,

while

families

in 1968, spent only 10% on housing and 8% on public transport.

Finally

, in both years 1968 and 2018

families

spent the same amount of their weekly

income

on household items which was 7 per cent.