IELTS Academic writing : average weekly spending by families

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.

Answer :

The statistical information illustrated in the bar graph gives insights into the comparison of mean expenditure by families in one nation on various genres of items, as percentage of their weekly incomes, in the year 1968 and 2018.

To begin with, it is evident from the pictorial data that for categories such as food, fuel, power, clothing, footwear and personal goods , there was decline in spending. Moreover, spending on food came down from 35 % to around 17% and next noteworthy decline was in the clothing and footwear category where the numbers dropped from 10% to 5%.

On the other hand, in categories such as housing, transport and leisure, there was jump in spendings which was about 8,7 and 15% respectively. The biggest jump was in the textiles and it went from around 9% to 22%.

Overall, the noticeable trend is that there was biggest drop on the money spent on food items whereas largest growth was on expenditure in terms leisurely activities and the only category where the values remained stagnant were in the household goods category.

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