The bar chart illustrates how household utilized their weekly salaries in 1968 and in 2018. Overall, people spent more money on leisure activities nowadays.
In 1968, the food occupied highest proportion of people’s income, about 35%. However, it dropped dramatically to only half of the original percentage in 2018. The same situation went to clothing and footwear. Originally, families spent 10% of their income to their outfits,but it turned to be only 5% in 2018, which was half of the initial proportion. Besides that, one of the differences that stood out was household buy less personal things over the 50 years period, decreasing about 5% from 1968. Lastly, average money that spent on fuel and power was dipping from approximately 7% to almost 4%.
In contrast, leisure activities seemed to be the dominant status in people’s income over the 50 years period, from 8% in 1968 doubled to about 22% in 2018. Meanwhile, the expenses on housing properties also increased significantly in people’s income from 10% to approximately 20% . The percentage of the transportation also rose sharply from about 8% to 14%. Surprisingly, the average money that families spent on the household goods remained the same as it did in 1968, only 8% in both recording years.