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

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

Turkey

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) in 2002.

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

second

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

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of outgoing which Sweden

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15.77% having the lowest percentage and

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at 32.14% having a higher

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of expenses in

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column. Ireland by 28.91% shows a

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close to

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and all three remaining European countries had a

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below 20% in

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regard. Regarding the

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and third columns which were related to clothing/footwear and

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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

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category,

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had the

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by 9%.