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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how
family
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a family
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in one nation spent their weekly income between 1968 and 2018.
Accoring
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According
to the graph, we can see the
percentage
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of average weekly spending in 1968. The largest
percentage
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was buying food. The
percentage
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was 35%.The
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secondly
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largest
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was housing, clothing and
footware
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footwear
, it was about 10%. The
percentage
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of buying fuel and power, household
goods
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, personal
goods
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, transport and leisure was under 10%.
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the
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of weekly spending in 2018, the largest
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was
spending
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on buying leisure,
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was 25%. The
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larage
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largest
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was about buying housing , transport and food. The
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espectively
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respectively
were 19%, 14% and 16%. The
percentage
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of buying fuel and power, clothing and
footware
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footwear
, household
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and personal
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was under 10%. In conclusion, it can be seen that citizens spent most on food in 1968,
while
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50 years later, leisure accounted for the largest proportion. It is
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noticeable that the figure for household
goods
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was the same in both years.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words percentage, goods with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 10 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 3 times.
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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