Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The average household expenditure in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.

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of average household expenditure between
Japan
and
Malaysia
in 2010. The main sectors for consideration
consists
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of 5 categories including housing, transport, food, health care, other goods and services. Overall, the other goods and services
was
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the largest
expense
in
Japan
while in
Malaysia
, the highest numbers belong to housing
catagory
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category
with 29% and 34% respectively. It is interesting to see that
health
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care sector was the least
expense
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for both countries.
Japan
spent in total 29% ,which consecutively 10% more than
Malaysia
with 26%. Meanwhile,
Malaysia
's expenditure slightly surpassed
Japan
expense
in
Food
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sector
for
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3% with
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estimated
expense
of 27%.
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