The chart below gives information about how families in one country spend their weekly income in 1968 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relavant.

The chart illustrates the information on expenditure by families, spending their average weekly income, in one nation between 1968 and 2018.

Overall

Linking Words

, it can be seen that the most noticeable spendings were food and leisure,

while

Linking Words

the lowest was fuel and power, and personal

goods

Use synonyms

in the same year. In 1968, the trend of expenditure, pouring into food the most, by 35%, housing, and clothing and footwear were shared by 10% from income. There were four things, leisure, household

goods

Use synonyms

, personal

goods

Use synonyms

, and transport, which were recorded by 10% and the rest 8%, respectively. The least were fuel and power, receiving approximately 6%. In 2018, the trend was considerably changed, leisure increased to 22%,

also

Linking Words

house and transport increased to 19% and 14%, respectively. In the opposite way, Food, fuel and power, clothing

and

Check wording

, footwear, and

show examples

footware and, personal

goods

Use synonyms

faced a decrease, 17%, 4%, 5% and

,

Punctuation problem

apply

show examples

4%, Repectively. Meanwhile,

household

Check wording

households

show examples

,

Punctuation problem

apply

show examples

still

remaining

Wrong verb form

remain

show examples

stable by 8%.