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

The bar chart depicts information about the average percentage of weekly earnings and expenditure by households in a country in 1968 and 2018. In general, there are major detrimental changes in food, housing, leisure, and transport but less in fuel and power, clothing, and personal goods while household goods shows no difference.

To begin with, in 1968, food consumption reached 35% whereas in 2018, it dramatically dropped to less than 20% of family earnings. Therefore, household purchasing for housing climbed from 10% in 2018 to almost 20% in 1968. Moreover, leisure spending and transport in also significantly gained from little less than 10% to almost 23% for leisure and from nearly 10% to almost 15% for transport, respectively.

Whereas, slight changes were happened in fuel and power, clothing, and personal goods. From more than 5% in 1968 dropped to nearly 5% in 2018 for fuel and power also clothing from 5% to 10%, and personal items from nearly 7% to little less than 5%. Therefore, household goods still had the same which almost 10% in 1968 and 2018.