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

1The bar chart compares 2the proportion of weekly income spent by families across eight categoriesthe number of eight parts that families cost every week 3onin average in 1968 and 2018.

It is obvious that in 1968 food was the highest amount of domestic cost, but the spending 4onin leisure became the top spending category after 50 years. Furthermore, the cost in housing and transport 5also experienced an increasealso experiencing a increase between 1968 and 2018.

In 1968, 7foodthe food 8accounted forcoverd 35 percent of families' weekly bills, morethan three times higher than housing, clothing and footware which 9were the next largest categories at roughly 10% eachtied the second highest part about 10%. 10In 2018, the weekly domestic spending in 11leisurelesisure overtook 12spending on food, reaching around 22%the spending in food up to around 22%, while 13the shares of housing and transport grew from 10% to almost 20% and from about 8% to nearly 14% respectivelythe parts of housing, transport growing from 10% to almost 20%, 10% to approximately 15%.

The other four parts of weekly 14family expenditurefamlies cost, without household goods which 15remained stable at around 8%stayed stable of 8%, 16fell slightlydropped lightly in this period of time. Fuel and power faced a decline from 6% to 4%. Clothing and footware had a 17descentdesecnt from 10% to 5%, whereas personal goods 18droppeddopped by a similar amount from 8% to 4%.