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Band 4+: The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and 2018. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The image shows a bar chart comparing average weekly spending by families in 1968 and 2018 in seven categories. In 1968, the highest spending was on food (23%) followed by housing (18%), while in 2018, the highest spending was on housing (29%) followed by transport (15%). Fuel and power spending decreased from 11% to 5%, while leisure spending increased from 9% to 12%. Clothing and footwear spending remained constant at 6%, while household goods spending decreased from 8% to 5% and personal goods spending decreased from 4% to 2%.

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The bar chart illustrates in which ways citizens of one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

Overall, Most of families spent their income in Food and Leisure. While, every families spending the lowest income in Fuel and power.

In 1968 to 2018, one country all peoples spending by families the highest percentage. However, Fuel and power spending by families was decreased. Between 1968 to 2018, House hold goods weekly spending by families remain same. In 2018, Man and women spending income on leisure. While in 1968 the spending percentage was only 9.

On the other hand, in 2018, personal goods , clothing and footware remain the same percentage. But in 1968, personal goods 8 percentage and clothing and footware rose up 6%. Furthermore, in 1968 spending by families on transport around eight percentage only. But into 2018 Leisure expense went up from 9% to 23% .

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Vocabulary Complexity:
B1 - Intermediate
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Vocabulary Repetition:

spending: 7

families: 6

percentage: 5

income: 4

leisure: 3

goods: 3

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Task Response

The response provides an overview of the main features of the chart, but there are some inaccuracies and the comparisons are not consistently made. The report should focus on specific data points and compare the spending in different categories between 1968 and 2018.

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