percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002

​​The given

data

represents the

amount

spent by consumers in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in three categories in the year 2002. As is presented in the table

data

,

People

of those countries spent more on foods and tobaccos than they did on dresses,

education

, and entertainment. According to the given

data

, Turk

people

spent the highest percentage on foods and tobacco amounting to one-

third

of their total expenses on consumer products. Irish

people

spent more than 28% on

this

category while

people

of Italy, Spain, and Sweden spent just over 15% on food and tobacco. For clothing and footwear, the

people

of these five countries spent around 5% to 9% of which Italian spent the highest percentage (9%). Interestingly the expenditure on leisure activities and

education

was much less than the

amount

spent on food, tobacco, and dresses. The highest

amount

spent on

education

and entertainment was done by Turkish

people

(4.35%) and the least

amount

spent

by

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was in Spain (1.98%). No nation among the given five spent more than 5% in

education

and leisure activities according to the given

data

.