0126 (c17-3)

The chart compares average weekly spending by families in food and other seven daily consumption
from 1968 to 2018.

Over the 50-year period, weekly income spent in food, clothing and footware, personal goods declined
while housing, transport and leisure increased. The remaining expense all went into household goods
and the percentage of weekly income kept constant during the half decade.

Weekly income spent in food was relatively the highest in 1968, with 35%, but the figure in 2018 was
one second of the original one. The similar decrease trend can be found in fuel and power, clothing
and footware, and personal goods, dropping by about 2%, 5% and 4% respectively. By contrast,
expense in housing, transport and leisure increased, rising by around 8%, 5% and 11%. And the
proportion of weekly income spending in household goods always remained the same between 1968
and 2018.

In 1968, spending in food constituted the main part of families’ weekly income but it became the third
biggest after five decades later and spending in leisure ranked No. 1 in 2018. The lowest consumption
of weekly income was fuel and power both in 1968 and 2018.