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

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
The table
revealse
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reveals
data about the
percentage
of national
consumerexpenditure
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consumer expenditure
by category in 5 different countries ( Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey) in 2002.
Overall
, Turkey had the most
expenditure
consumers in the
case
of
food
/ drink and
tobbaco
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tobacco
and
also
leisure
/education,
while
Italy had the most consumption in the
case
of clothing/footwear.
On the other hand
, Sweden had the
least
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lowest
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proportion of
food
and clothes
expenditure
,
while
in the
case
of
clothing
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,clothing
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the least
was belonged
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belonged
has belonged
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to Spain. Turkey was the biggest consumer of the
food
/ drink and
tobbaco
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tobacco
industry and
leisure
/education with 32.14% and 4.35%,
while
Italian citizens had the
most
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highest
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percentage
of
expenditure
for clothing/footwear with 1.98%. Spanish people spent 18.8% of their
expenditure
on
food
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the food
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category,
while
this
ratio was almost
one third
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one-third
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and one
ninethfor
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ninth for
the
clothe
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clothes
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and
leisure
case
with 6.51% and 1.98% respectively. In Sweden, citizens spend 15.77% of their money
in
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on
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food
/drink and tobacco,
whereas
this
percentage
was 5.40 and 3.22 in two other
categorizes
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categories
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. Irish people had the second
percentage
of
expenditure
rate in the
case
of
food
after Turkish people, with 28.91%.
Additionally
, In
the
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Ireland, the least amount of money was spent
for
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on
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leisure
with 2.21%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • consumer spending
  • items
  • countries
  • comparison
  • overview
  • table
  • data
  • information
  • proportion
  • percentage
  • figures
  • categories
  • expenditure
  • purchases
  • spending habits
  • trends
  • average
  • highest
  • lowest
  • variation
  • pattern
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