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

The table below gives information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
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The table provides data about
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spending on different items in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.
Overall
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, the
category
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of
consumer
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goods
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that all
countries
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spent the most
money
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was
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food, drinks and tobacco,
whereas
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, the
category
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of
consumer
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goods
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that all
countries
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spent the least
money
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was
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leisure
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and
education
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. As can clearly be seen, the
category
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of
consumer
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goods
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that all
countries
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spent most
money
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was
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food, drinks and tobacco where Turkey’s expenditure compared to others was the highest with 32.14 per
cent
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. Ireland’s expenditure was
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high(28,91 per
cent
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). The
country
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which spent the least
money
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on food, drinks and tobacco was Sweden, the
country
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spent only 15.77 per
cent
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. Italy spent 9 per
cent
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on clothing and footwear which was the highest percentage. The lowest expenditure on clothing and footwear
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Sweden with 5.40 percent. The
category
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of
consumer
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goods
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that all
countries
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spent the least
money
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was
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leisure
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and
education
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. The
country
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which spent the most
money
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on
leisure
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and
education
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was Turkey with 4.35 per
cent
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and the
country
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which spent the least amount of
money
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on
leisure
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and
education
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was Spain with 1.98 per
cent
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.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words consumer, category, goods, countries, money, leisure, education, cent, country with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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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