Band 5+: The chart below gives information about how families in one country spend their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates weekly spending distribution of families among different 8 items in one country in 1968 and in 2018, respectively.

In summary, people were more likely to spend money on food in 1968. In 2018, the pattern is not extremely and the porpotion of spending money in leisure is slightly higher than other items.

In 1968, 35% weekly income contribute to food of famliies ranking the first among other items, while it dropped rapidly to 17% in 2018, lower than housing and leisure. Expect spending food, the number of families spending on other items is steady, the maximum is housing not exceed 10%,and the minimum is fuel and power around 6%.

It is obvious that cost in leisure inscreasing fast. It is more than two times in 2018 comparing with 1968. Meantime, expenditure in housing and transport also rised among this period, with 18% and 14% in 2018, respectively. Besides, less and less families prefered to spend money in fuel and power, clothing and footware, personal goods. The percentage of spending on household goods had not change.