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

The table illustrates the amount of money that purchasers used for separate categories in 5 nations in the year 2002.

It is clear that

people from the observed countries spent a lot of money on food/drinks and tobacco,

while

the opposite was true for leisure activities and education.

Additionally

, the expenditure on clothing and footwear in Italy was the highest, compared to just a small fraction in other regions. As can be seen, Turkey was recorded to be at the top of the list with 32.14% of eating habits and tobacco, in comparison with 28.91% of that in Ireland. The Fashion market in these 2 countries shared the same percentage of approximately 6.5%. Meanwhile, the figure for free time hobbies and studying stood at 2.21% in Ireland and 4.35% in Turkey. Regarding the rest 3 areas, about 18.80% of the income was expended on food/drinks and tobacco in Spain,

whereas

the sum of those in Italy and Sweden was 16.36% and 15.77% respectively. Clothing and footwear in Italy,

however

, took up the largest proportion with 9%, followed by 6.51% in Spain and 5.40% in Sweden.

Moreover

, the Italian

as well as

Swedish buyers

also

paid 3.20% for their pastime and schooling, except for the Spanish as they spent only 1.98% on those.