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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 data below displace the imformation about how families in one country spent their weekly income in two different periods, 1968 and 2018.

In the period of 1968, people spent most of their weekly income on food rather than other important items. While People reduced spending their money on food and increase the uses of their income on other neccessary things by 2018.

In the year 1968, families in a country approximately spent 10% of their weekly income on neccessary items like housing, clothing and footware and so on, however they spend more than third of their total weekly income on food only, which is round about 35%

In the period of 2018, people reduce spending their weekly money on food to round about 15% and increase their income spend on housing and leisure to approximately 20%. While they remaining things were less than 5% expect household goods which is round about 7%.

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The report provides a basic summary of the information, but it lacks detail and misses some key comparisons. It also includes some inaccuracies.

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