The table below gives an information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries
The table shows data about the proportion of income people spent on three groups of products in (within) five countries in 2002.
Overall
, the first group of grocery products predominates over the rest. Clothing/footwear is the second
largest category of spending (akes
the Correct your spelling
takes
second
place), while
(and
) leisure/spare time and educational needs are the least essential/important/popular. Turkey’s consumers/Turks spend the largest percentage of income/earnings/revenues/ (capital) on all three groups Correct word choice
apply
ofgoods
, Correct your spelling
of goods
whereas
in Sweden
the overall
proportion of spending is the smallest.
Turkey and Ireland’s groceries
expenses are the largest of all, comprising 32.14% and 28.91% respectively (and are the largest in the first group). Fix the agreement mistake
grocery
Moreover
, these two countries have really close figures of spending on clothes and footwear at around 6.5% ( 6.63% and 6.43%)( in the second
column. However
, people in Turkey spend almost twice as high a percentage of their earnings (4.35%) on entertainment and education as in Ireland,.
Italy, Change the punctuation
,
.
Sweden
and Spain demostrate
similar/close figures in the food category/ sectors, spending Correct your spelling
demonstrate
one fifth
( and almost Add a hyphen
one-fifth
two tenths
) of income (is spent for) on it. Add a hyphen
two-tenths
However
, only Italy and Sweden
show practically the same proportion of spending at just over 3%/ 3.20% and 3.22% respectively. Despite such
similarities, Italy has the largest/highest( biggest) figure at (of
) 9% in the Change preposition
apply
second
group, whereas
spending in Sweden
comprises the smallest 5.40%.Submitted by arinatiutina on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words second, sweden with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "shows" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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