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

The provided chart illustrates the families' expenditure channels in one country concerning their weekly income in 1968 and 2018.

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, it is apparent that families' expenditure concept had changed a lot from 1968 to 2018.

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, by 2008, housing and leisure had increased by nearly the decline in the amount of food. It can be clearly observed that in 1968 and 2018, the

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of spending on fuel and power, clothing and footwear, household

goods

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, and personal

goods

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never exceeded 10% for each one of them.

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, the highest

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in 2018 was around 22% for leisure, with no considerable gap from the following

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achieving nearly 19% for housing,

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food was the highest

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in 1968 with 35%. Eventually, spending on food, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal

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decreased to reach nearly 17%, 4%, 5%, and 4% in 2018, respectively,

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the other expenditure, transport, leisure, and housing, had soared by the year

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2018,

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except household

goods

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that remained stable at 10 %.