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 bar chart displays the percentage breakdown of how households in a particular country allocated their weekly

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across eight categories in the years 1968 and 2018.

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, the way households allocated their income changed significantly over the period.

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expenditure

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on

food

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halved, spending on leisure, housing, and transport increased substantially. In 1968, families spent a little over a third of their weekly income on

food

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, making it by far the largest spending category. Housing and clothing each accounted for 10%, and

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food

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, of total

expenditure

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,

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the remaining five items surveyed each ranged between 6% and 8%.

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three categories made up more than half of

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expenditure

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Fifty years later,

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food

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still accounted for 17% of household spending,

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from 1968.

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, spending on clothing and footwear dropped from 10% to 5%.

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, leisure, which

initially

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represented only 8% of spending, almost tripled to 22%, becoming the largest spending item. Both housing and transport

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saw notable increases, rising from 10% to 19% and from 7% to 14%, respectively.