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

The bar chart 1illustrates the weeklyillustrates weekly expenditure of families living in a particular country in two years, 1968 and 2018.

Overall, households showed remarkable differences in the amount of money paid for various sectors in those two years. Noticeably, in 1968, food occupied the largest proportion of family weekly spending, while 25040 years later, leisure ranked in first place.

3Regarding categories with upward trendsOn the one hand, families were prone to pay more for housing, transportation, and leisure. In 1968, figures for those three sectors were roughly 10%, 8%, and 9% respectively. However, the percentage for both housing and transportation doubled, and a drastic growth of approximately 15% can be seen in leisure in 2018.

5In contrastOn the other hand, less 6incomecapital was spent on the rest except household goods, which plateaued at about 8% during the 75040-year period. In 1968, food accounted for 35% of family weekly cost, while that figure nearly halved in 2018. 8Personal goods and clothing and footwear demonstrated similar patterns; their sharesPersonal goods and clothing and footwear demonstrated similar patterns, which plummeted from 8% to 4%, and from 10% to 5% respectively. 9Compared with them, fuel and power declined slightly, which was 6% in 1968 and witnessed a drop of only 2% in 2018, and made up the least part of family weekly spending in both years.