IELTS WRITING TASK 1

TOPIC: The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

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The column chart illustrates the distribution of weekly earnings among families in a country in 1960 and 2018. Overall, the percentage of money sent every week on essential and personal goods such as food, fuel, or clothing in 1968 was higher than that in 2018, while others including housing, transport, or leisure activities were responsible for higher budgets in 2018.

On the one hand, there was 35 percent of weekly income spent on food in 1968, which was double that in 2018 at about 17 percent. Similarly, the proportion of money used for personal goods and clothes in 2018 was only half of that in 1968 at around 10 percent and 8 percent respectively. As can be seen, over 5 percent of weekly earnings in families in that country was paid for fuel and power in 1968, compared with approximately 3 percent in 2018.

On the other hand, the highest percentage of weekly income in 2018 was used for entertaining demands at over 20 percent, which was twice as much as that in 1968. Likewise, there was nearly 15 percent and 20 percent of the money paid weekly for transport and housing respectively, followed by only about 9 percent of that in 1968. Regarding household goods, these families used about 8 percent of their earnings for that in both 1968 and 2018.