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

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table represents the proportion of 5 different spending over five countries in 2002.

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, the majority of the consumption of the figure was food, drinks and tobacco.

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the Turkish spent the most on food, the opposite could be seen in education spending in Spain. It was obvious that more than 50% of the budget was allocated for eating, drinking and smoking. Standing at 32,14%, Turkish people dedicated one-third of their total budget to nutrients and cigarettes, followed by Ireland's, which was double the spending of the Swedish, the lowest. Meanwhile, Ireland, Turkey and Spain shared a similar rate of 6% for clothing and footwear, which was 3% less than that figure for Italy, and double the footwear expenditure of Sweden. Strikingly, leisure and education covered a minority of 5% share, just one-seventh of the largest.

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people in Turkey allocated the most at 4.35%, it seemed that education and leisure accounted for nearly half of the total spending of the Spanish and Irish at 1.98% and 2.21% respectively. The Italian and the Swedish spent the same rate at around 3.2%.