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 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.
IELTS Writing Task Chart for 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.
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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
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, in 1968,
families
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spent a huge amount of their weekly
income
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on food,
while
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in 2018,
families
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spent their weekly salary on buying or renting either a house or apartment and
also
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spent on leisure.
However
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, in both years
families
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spent equally of their weekly
income
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on household goods.
Firstly
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, in 1968, food had the highest percentage of weekly purchases by households with 35 per cent,
while
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families
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in 2018 spent only 14 per cent of their weekly
income
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. People in 1968, spent most of their weekly
income
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on clothing, power and personal goods more than people in 2018, which were 10%, 8% and 6% respectively,
while
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in 2018, were only 5%, 4% and 4% of their weekly spending.
Secondly
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, households in 2018, spent a lot of their weekly
income
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on their leisure time more than
families
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in 1968, which was 22% in 2018, and only 8% in 1968.
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, by 2018, housing came to second place in weekly spending with 19%, and following that, was transportation which was 14% of their weekly
income
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,
while
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families
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in 1968, spent only 10% on housing and 8% on public transport.
Finally
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, in both years 1968 and 2018
families
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spent the same amount of their weekly
income
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on household items which was 7 per cent.

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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Conclusion: The conclusion is too long.
Vocabulary: Replace the words families, income with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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