The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart compares the average weekly charge of households across eight different categories in a specific country between 1968 and 2018.

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, there was a significant change in spending patterns over the 50 year period.

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food was the largest expense in 1968, it was overtaken by leisure and housing in 2018. In 1968, families spent the highest proportion of their income on food, reaching a peak of 35%.

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figure dropped sharply to approximately 17% in 2018.

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, the percentage of income spent on clothing and footwear, fuel and power, and personal goods all decreased

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period. Spending on leisure saw the most dramatic increase,

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from just under 10% in 1968 to 22% in 2018, it the highest expenditure category in that year. Housing costs

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rose significantly from 10% to nearly 20%. Transport spending similar upward trend, increasing from 8% to 14%. Meanwhile, household goods spending remained stable at around 8% in 50 years.