A glance at the figure provided reveals statistics regarding the data about the average weekly spendings by families between 1968 and 2018.
Overall, what stands out is that income spent on food and leisure swapped in fifty years.
To begin with, in 1968, food had the most concentration of weekly wage at around 35%, while the money spent on housing, clothing, and footwear were exactly the same at one tenth. Moreover, goods such as household and personal ones, and transport had the equal distribution below one tenth of weekly income, but leisure had a higher percentage at nearly 8. An insignificant amount of wage, approximately 6%, was distributed on fuel and power.
Secondly, leisure had the major distribution with above one fifth of 7 days of family profit, in 2018, but spendings on the food dropped to slightly over 15%. At the same period of time, housing and transport increased to one fifth and less than 15%, respectively. Nevertheless, clothing, footware, fuel, and personal items decreased by half to below one twentieth. In addition, household belongings remained at nearly 7%.
