Band 4+: 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 chart shows that the percentage of spent weekly income by families for 8 categories in one country in two years: 1986 and 2018.

Overall, what stands out from the chart is that food was dominant throughout 1968 years as opposed to fuel and power. Moreover, several other categories have shown upward trends in the second year.

In 1968, the percentage of weekly income by food was 35, and it was the highest point on the chart, but this figure decreased the second year as good as half percent. The housing category increased from 10% to almost by a factor of 2. Inversely this, clothing and footware decreased from 10% to 5% in these years. Similarly, the proportion of weekly income of fuel and power was largely 7%, and these trends declined until 4% in 2018.

Nevertheless, leisure and transport categories showed increasing trends. First-mentioned grew up from 9% to 22%, and second-mentioned expanded 8% to 14%. Interestingly, the weekly income of the household goods group stayed equal in both years, and it had 8%. Besides, the personal goods were 8% in 1968, also it plunged until 4% in 2018.