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

The table shows several data related to the

portion

of national consumer expenses by categories in five different regions (Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and

Turkey

) in 2002.

Overall

, it can be seen that food/drink/tobacco proved to be the most important consumer spending in all societies, with clothing/ footwear

second

. the least expenditure in all mentioned communities was leisure/education that year. in all five mentioned headers, food/drink/tobacco was the biggest

portion

of outgoing which Sweden

with

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15.77% having the lowest percentage and

Turkey

at 32.14% having a higher

portion

of expenses in

this

column. Ireland by 28.91% shows a

portion

close to

Turkey

and all three remaining European countries had a

portion

below 20% in

this

regard. Regarding the

second

and third columns which were related to clothing/footwear and

also

leisure/education, it seems that the total percentage of each nation is lower than the first column. Italy had the highest costs in categories first and third and about the

second

category,

Turkey

had the

second

portion

by 9%.