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 comprasions where relevant.

The given bar chart compares data about the percentage of family weekly income invested in 8 various sections in one country at two points in time namely, 1968 and 2018.

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, it was important that the proportion of spending money on housing, transportation and leisure

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to other sectors increased over the period of half a century.

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the diagram, in the beginning, food, the main factor that the population spent the highest section of the budget in 1968, hit 35%;

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it reduced overwhelmingly to roughly 17% in 2018.

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Housing and clothing & footwear reached the same fraction at 10% in 1968;

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, they had a reverse fashion owing to the fact that accommodation rose significantly to just under 20% in 2018.

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clothing and footwear dropped moderately to 5% in 2018. Leisure scored roughly 9% in 1986;

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, it leapt considerably to almost 23% in 2018. The graph demonstrates that transport, personal goods, and household products touched approximately the same portion at nearly 8% the first time, after that their trend was difficult because transport grew somewhat to nearly 15%.

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, household goods were constant and personal ones dipped to nearly 4% in 2018. Fuel and power recorded just over 5% in 1968;

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they declined to nearly4%