The chart below g/vas 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 loaturos, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph illustrates the proportions of weekly how families spend their earnings in a country from 1968 to 2018.

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, the highest percentage of income went to food in 1968, but

at the end

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of the period, leisure became the highest rate of all other categories.

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, home items stayed relatively unchanged over the years. The money spent on food in 1968 was at a peak of 35 per

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, it dropped significantly to reach approximately 17% in 2018.

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income spent on leisure, was

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just below 8% in 1986 and increased dramatically to almost 23 per

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in 2018.

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, the figure for housing started at 10% in 1968. After that, it grew to just below 20% in 2018. As far as

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earnings going to fuel and power, clothing and personal goods began between more than 5 per

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and 10 per

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, but all of them saw a decrease in 2018.

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, the rate of house goods remained stable over the same period.