The below graph illustrates data about the methods families followed in spending their funds during a week in two years 1968 and 2018. The main categories on which they spent their income were eight: food, housing, fuel and power, clothing and footware, household goods, personal goods, transport, and leisure. Overall, it can be noticed that food had the highest rate in 1968, while in 2018 leisure reached a very significant percentage.
To begin with, during 1968, it can observed that the rate of amounts of money paid on food was the largest with 35% within a week. In the second degree, families were paying their income equally of 10% on housing and clothing and footware. Considering the other types, leisure, transport, household goods, personal goods, and fuel and power were the least important ones with a percent not more than 10%.
In 2018, families’ interests differed as it can be shown from the graph that leisure reached the biggest proportion of approximately 22% within a week. The next interest was housing, people spent almost a fifth. Then, they care about food with a total paying rate of slightly more than 15%. Transport took the fourth degree with nearly 14%. On the other hand, the rest types, household goods, and clothing and footware were at the lowest rates with no more than 10%. Finally, fuel and power and personal goods reached the lowest rate, less than 5%.