The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

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bar chart compares the average weekly salaries of families in one country which were devoted to various purposes in 1968 and 2018.

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, it can be seen that the trend was varied and fluctuated in different categories. In 1968, people consumed the largest proportion of their weekly

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for food, which was 35%. They spent an equal amount of money on accommodation and clothes. They devoted one in ten of their

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to these needs. They allocated less than 10% of their budget to household products, personal goods, transport, and leisure time.

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, fuel and power were reported to use less than 5% of weekly

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, leisure activities, housing, and food received much more

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in 2018, and it was about 20%.

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, transport was in the second place for weekly expenditure in that year. Around 5% of weekly

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was consumed for personal and household needs.

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, fuel was in

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place, and it indicated a sharp fall to reach less than 5%. All in all,

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a large amount of money was allocated to essential needs like food and housing. Spending on energy accounted for a tiny portion of families’

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.