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 bar graph illustrates the average weekly expenditure of families in a certain country in the years 1968 and 2018. It is evident that money spent on items

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as food,personal goods,clothing, footwear,fuel and power, had decreased in the later recorded year,

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, in areas of housing,transport and leisure the spending increased. The amount utilized on food was the highest in 1968 which was 35% of the total,but later it was cut down to half in 2018.

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, a similar trend was observed for two more categories: clothing and footwear, and personal goods. They had weekly expenses of 20% and 8% respectively.

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, the least allocation of funds in 1968 was for Fuel and power with just 6%,

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, it dropped even

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to 4%.

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, there were leisure activities, where people spent 22% of their total spending in 2018, it was just 9% in 1968. On top of that, 19% contributed to housing which used to be 10%.

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, expenses in transport had

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increased from 8% to 14%.