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 comprasions where relevant.

The bar chart compares how households in a certain nation spent their weekly wages in 1968 and 2018. Looking from an

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perspective, in 1968, people used to spend most of their income on food,

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in 2018, the highest expenditure was on leisure.

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, in both years, spending on fuel and power was lower than in other categories. In 1968, families were spending 35% of their weekly salaries on edible goods,

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the spending in every other classification was no higher than 10%, and notably, the percentages of expenditure on other categories ranged within 10% and slightly over 5%, which was recorded in the fuel and power categories.

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, in 2018, the spending habits have shifted as households allocated around 23% of their weekly income towards leisure, just less than 20% on housing, and the spending on food came in the third place with roughly 17%. Meanwhile, the expenditure on personal goods, fuel and power was lower than 5%.