The table illustrates the proportion of monthly household income that five European countries spend on food and drink, housing, clothing and entertainment.

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spent per month by five

countries

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in Europe on four items.

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, we can see that all five

countries

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spend the majority of their

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on food and drink and housing,

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on clothing and entertainment, their spending was the lowest. Turkey’s expenditure on food and drink was the highest at 36%, followed by Spain at 31%,

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the other three

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spend around a quarter on

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: the UK at 27%,

France

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at 25% and Germany at 22%, which was the lowest percentage on

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item.

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, housing is the largest expenditure item for the UK, Germany and

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, with all of them spending around one-third of their

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, at respectively 37%, 33% and 31%.

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, Turkey and Spain’s outlay was only a fifth of their

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at nearly 20%. All five

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spend much less on the remaining two items. For clothing,

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and Spain recorded the lowest percentage, with less than 10%,

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the other three

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spend around the same amount between 15% and 11%. Germany’s expenditure on entertainment was the highest at 19%, whilst UK and Turkey spend approximately half

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amount (11% and 10%), with

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and

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spending between those other three nations.