The table below gives infromation on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows the proportion of shopper spending on three different categories in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.

Overall

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, these five countries mainly spent on food or drinks or tobacco

while

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the least on leisure or education. For the first category of food or drinks or tobacco, Turkey experienced the highest percentage of 32.14% followed by 28.91% in Ireland.

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, the other four countries showed a similar amount of spending in the range of 15.77% to 18.80%. In comparison, the expenditure on clothing or footwear was moderate which was below 10%. Italy spent the largest amount 9%

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only 5.4% for Sweden.

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that, the remaining countries disburse approximately 6% of these items. In the other category of leisure or education, Turkey

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spent the most at 4.35% compared to Sweden, Italy and Ireland at 3.22%, 3.20% and 2.21% respectively.

On the other hand

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, consumers in Spain invested the lowest percentage of 1.98%.