The bar chart reveals the amount of weekly spending of families for several purposes in a country, withing a half century, from 1968 to 2018. Overall, food, fuel and power, clothing and footwear and personal goods were relatively higher money allocated categories in 1968, while housing, transport and leisure became more significant in 2018. For household goods, in both time periods equal amount of funds were dedicated.
Precisely, at the initial period, food was the most important necessity of families, where 35% of all the income was spent. However, in 2018, this volume was almost reduces twice with about 15%. Housing required more finances in the latter year and nearly one-fifth of the money allocated for this sector. The difference in fuel and power was not very substantial during the compared time phase and it was declined about 6% to around 4%.
Double reduction between the numbers was observed in clothing and footwear and they were only 5% in 2018. Similar situation was also noticed on personal goods where digits dropped to the final 4% point from the starting 8%. For transport and transportation expenses grew from almost 8% to nearly 14%. The largest increase was experienced on leisure that rose from just 9% to over 20% in 2018. The only category that did not undergo any alterations was household good and about 7% of funding were allocated for them.