The table below shows consumer spending on different items in 5 countries in 2002.

The given table illustrates the proportion of natural

expenditure

in

Ireland

, Italy,

Spain

, Sweden and

Turkey

in 3 categories of goods items in 2002.

Overall

, food/drinks/tobacco were the most preferred types of goods,

whereas

leisure/education

were

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spent the least amount of money by citizens. Another point that should

also

be highlighted is that the

expenditure

of

Turkey

in total was the highest in comparison to other

countries

. (The outlay of

Turkey

was generally higher

that

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the other four

countries

) In terms of food/drinks/tobacco,

Turkey

spent the most at 32,14%. The spendings of

Ireland

in

this

category were

also

high (28,91%) compared to Sweden which spent the least (15,77%). The

expenditure

for Italy and

Spain

in

this

category were almost equal at 16,36% and 18,80% respectively. The second most popular group consist of clothing/footwear where Italy topped the list at just 9% of their national

expenditure

as opposed to Sweden, which spent the least at just 5,40%.

Turkey

,

Ireland

and

Spain

have practically

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equal percentages at 6,63%, 6,43 and 6,51% respectively. Leisure and education

expenditure

accounted for the least preferred in the table and

Turkey

of all

thecountries

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the countries

countries

spent 4,35%, whilst

Spain

and

Ireland

spent the least amount of money at around 2%. The other two

countries

were around 1% higher at 3,20% and 3,22%. (The national spending in

this

area for the remaining

countries

averaged (усредненный) around 6,5%).