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 compares the percentages of weekly income spent by families on eight categories in 1968 and 2018.

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, the proportion of money spent on all categories changed gradually, with the most noticeable reduction

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food and

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an increase

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in spending on leisure.

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, the figure for household goods remained constant throughout the years.

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expenditure on food accounted for 35% of the weekly income in 1968

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then

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it dropped to nearly 17% in 2018. Spending on clothing and footwear fell by half, from 10% in 1968 to around 5% in 2018.

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, the percentage of household goods remained at 7% over a 40-year period The graph provided reveals that people in 2018 tended to spend their income on leisure rather than on any other category, which considerably climbed from around 7% to 22%. The amount of spending on transport doubled between 1968 and 2018, at 7% and 14%, respectively.