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The bar chart illustrates the average weekly expenses of families in a country in 1968 and 2018.

Over all , spending on housing , transport and leisure increased , while other categories dropped , without the stability of household goods.Meanwhile , the largest proportion of weekly income was spent on food in 1968 and on leisure in 2018.

In 1968, food reached a peak, which is the highest proportion of total costs , at 35% and decreasing significantly to around half figure in 2018 . A similar trend was seen in the percentage of spending on personal goods ,and clothing and footwear , with the first figures in 1968 of 10% and 7% respectively. In addition, the figures for fuel and power spending dropped slightly from 6% to 4%.

In 1968 , housing accounted for one-tenth of the weekly expenditure, which nearly doubled 50 years later . Likewise, the figures for transport and leisure were both around 8% in 1968 , rising to 14% and 22% respectively by 2018 . Although both started at 8% ,leisure spending increased more significantly than transport