this topic from The tables below gives information on consumer spending on different items in four countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table above analyzes the spending habits of

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in five different countries, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. The items selected for

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survey are grouped into three categories: food/drinks/tobacco, clothing/footwear and

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leisure/education. Looking at the data, the

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' general trend, independently from their nationality, is to not invest in leisure and education as much as in other commodities,

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as food, drinks and tobacco. As a matter of fact,

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from these Countries spend an average of 3% of their income on the former, with the level dropping to 1.98% in Spain, people allocate an average of 17% of their income on the latter. The second group, which collects clothing and footwear, is the second most invested in,

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still do not spend as much of their income on clothes as on edibles, reaching an average of 7%. As the survey shows, the most spending Country from the poll is Turkey, scoring a 32.14% on food, drinks and tobacco, 6.63% on clothing and footwear and 4.35% on leisure and education.

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, the less spending Country appears to be Sweden, which scores 15.77% on the first items group, 5.40% on the second items group and 3.22% on the third.