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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bar graph presents data on how households spent their revenue weekly on 5 consumer goods in one country between the years 1968 and 2018.

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, the way families spent their weekly income had changed significantly by 2018, compared with 1968. Most notably, leisure and housing had dramatically overtaken food as the largest amount of the expenditure. In 1968, families spent most on food, accounting for exactly 35% of their weekly income,

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figure dramatically declined by almost half to around 17%. In the year

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1968, the proportion of weekly income spent in any of the other categories had never ever been exceeded 10%.

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, leisure and housing both experienced a significant upward, replacing

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food as the largest expenses in 2018 with approximately 22% and 18% of family salary, respectively. Expenditure

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rose, to roughly 14% of weekly wages,

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the money spent on household goods had remained steady in both years at about 7%. In comparison, fuel and power, clothing and

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, and personal goods all saw a

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reduction to no more than 5%.