the given barchart compares the the weekly expenditure of families in a country in the year 1968 and 2018. As it is evident from the graph, food and leisure acounted for the most of the spendings in 1968 and 2018 respectively, while people allocated the least amount of money on fuel and power as well as persinal goods in the given years respectively.
In 1968, food was the item most of the weekly wages were spent on, at 35 percent, followed by housing, and clothing and foothware both at 20 percent. In contrast, the least was alloted to fuel and power, the figure for which stood at less than 10 percent.
Turning to people’s managment of their money in the year 2018, leisure led the list, as it stood at approximately more than 22 per cent, followed by housing at just under 20. However, personal goods occupied the bottom of the list at under 5 percent. In relative similarity to the year 1968, fuel and and power was second to last t with somewhere around 7 percent of the incomes being set aside for it.
