The table below gives information 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.

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chart demonstrates how people in different

countries

spend

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their money on several kinds of

stuffs

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stuff

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in 2002. Food, drinks, and tobacco occupied the dominant position among all the consumptions, which

surpass

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the total percentage of clothing/footwear and leisure/education.

In

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Of

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the five

countries

, Ireland and Turkey purchase more

these

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of these

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types of goods than others, which are 28.91% and 32.14% respectively.

Besides

, Italy, Spain, and Sweden put in

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a similar

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amount of money on these

good

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goods

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, all of the percentages are between 15% and 19%. The expenditure

of

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on

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clothing and footwear of different

countries

are close to each other, which

are

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merely under 10%.

Comparing

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with the other four nations, the cost of clothes and shoes in Italy ranked

the

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first

for

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9.00%,

while

Sweden only consumed 5.40%. It is worth

to mention

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that Ireland, Spain, and Turkey

spended

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spent

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nearly the same percentage on these product categories, which are only less than 0.20% of

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the differences

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differences

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difference

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between each other. In terms of leisure and education, they got the smallest ratio in the national consumer expenditure

that

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all the five

countries

are

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under 5%.

By contrast

,

resident

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residents

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in Turkey preferred to spend more on

recreations

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recreation

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and

knowleged-learning

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knowledge-learning

than others.

To sum up

, consumers in the five nations spend the most on food, drinks, and tobacco. And it is noteworthy that people in Spain valued clothing/footwear the lowest among all the

countries

.