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.
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the bar graph shows how families' weekly profit in one country was spent in 1968 and 2018.
Overall
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, food, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods have experienced a downward trend from 1968 to 2018.
However
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, housing, transport and leisure have grown over the given period. Looking at the bar graph more closely, one can see that spending their weekly income on food has dropped by almost 20% from 35% in 1968 to above 15% in 2018.
In addition
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, spending their weekly income on clothing and footwear and, personal goods have decreased by 5% from 10 % in 1968 to 5% in 2018 and from above 10% in 1968 to above 5% in 2018.
By contrast
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, spending weekly profit on housing has increased by nearly 10% from 10% in 1968 to above 20% in 2018. followed by transport and leisure
also
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have experienced an upward trend over the 50-year period. In conclusion, it depends on what kind of field, spending weekly money has been different.
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Basic structure: Change the fourth paragraph.
Vocabulary: The word "graph" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fourth paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • compare
  • spending patterns
  • allocated
  • weekly income
  • significant changes
  • essential items
  • food
  • housing
  • clothing
  • leisure
  • communication
  • increase
  • decrease
  • twofold rise
  • substantial increase
  • quadrupling
  • declined
  • food and drink
  • slight increase
  • prioritizing
  • necessities
  • transitioned
  • portio
  • non-essential items
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