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 given horizontal bar chart illustrates the percentage of household

income

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spent by

families

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on various categories in one country in the periods of 1968 and 2018. In general what stands out from the figure is that the majority of household

income

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was spent on food in 1968,

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, in the year 2018 in

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category people spent their

income

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only half as much as in 1968.

Families

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spent about 35% of their

income

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on food in 1968.

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, more than 15% of their money from the total family budget was spent in 2018 in

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bar. In 1968 and 2018,

families

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spent their money on leisure about less than 10% and above 20%, respectively. The other categories,

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as housing and transport took third place in the budget. But in 2018

families

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spent around 18-19% of their profit on apartments. In conclusion, we can say that

families

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primarily spent their salaries on food in both years, after that on leisure time and for the needs of the house. A quarter of the

income

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was allocated to transportation.