Band 5+: 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.

The given bar chart shows the average weekly income spending by families in one nation in 1968 and 2018.

Overall, it is noticeable that most of the families in one country were spent their weekly income on food in 1968, while in 2018, they spent their weekly wages on leisure activities. Additionally, it can be seen that the weekly spending on fuel and power had the least figure in both years.

In 1968, food was the highest percentage with about 35% of their weekly income, closely followed by housing and clothing and foot ware, with 10% each, whereas household goods, personal goods, transportation and leisure had a similar spending proportion, ranging around 8%. However, fuel and power had the least spent rate, with nearly 6%.

In 2018, a different pattern was seen in which leisure time was the greatest percentage of their weekly income at approximately 22%, and then the second highest spent was housing and food at roughly 18% and 16% respectively. Meanwhile, fuel and power and clothing and food ware and personal goods had the smallest spent at under 5% of their weekly income.