The bar chart represent average weekly purchasing by household in 8 different category between 1968 and 2018.
Overall, the chart showed enormous decline in food from 1968 to 2018. In terms of time period, leisure and transport had the opposite effect, followed by housing.
In 1968 weekly food consumption expenditure was 35%. Whereas in 2018 in case of terms was different. Families spend down to 17%, respectivley. Not only the food showed similar behaviour also three expense(fuel and power, clothing and footwear, personal goods) acted exactly the same from 1968 to 2018. Since 1968, most spending had fallen below roughly 15% except three factor(food, housing and leisure ). In those two years the house goods didn’t show any signs of change.
Furthermore, spending on the leisure was 8% in 1968 but approximately 23% in 2018, almost triple itself in the time period. Additionally, a similar effect was observed on housing. In 1968, weekly income is 10% for housing but in 2018 escalates to 19% with nearly double the amount of spending.