The table below gives information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.

The table provides the information about national

expenditures

of Ireland, Italy, Spain,

Sweden

and

Turkey

on three different types of items in 2002.

Overall

, in every country consumers spent mostly on food/drinks/tobacco items, which was at least nearly 2 times higher than on other categories,

while

leisure/education items were the least popular category of expenses.

Turkey

’s

expenditures

were noticeably higher than

other

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four countries. Regarding

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food/drinks/tobacco,

Turkey

consumed the most with 32.14%. The

expenditures

of Ireland were

also

high

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28,91%,

while

the lowest figures were shown by

Sweden

, just 15.77%. In

leisure

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/education category, which was the smallest expenditure for all countries,

Turkey

spent 4.35%.

Sweden

and Italy spend nearly 1% less with 3.22 and 3.20

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. Spain had the lowest proportion of 1,98%. Clothing/footwear was the

last

category with mediocre figures between 5.40% in

Sweden

and 9% in Italy. For Ireland, Spain and

Turkey

national

expenditures

were around 6.5%.