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.
The table provides data about
consumer
spending on different items in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.
Overall
, the
category
of
consumer
goods
that all
countries
spent the most
money
was
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food, drinks and tobacco,
whereas
, the
category
of
consumer
goods
that all
countries
spent the least
money
was
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on was
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leisure
and
education
. As can clearly be seen, the
category
of
consumer
goods
that all
countries
spent most
money
was
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food, drinks and tobacco where Turkey’s expenditure compared to others was the highest with 32.14 per
cent
. Ireland’s expenditure was
also
high(28,91 per
cent
). The
country
which spent the least
money
on food, drinks and tobacco was Sweden, the
country
spent only 15.77 per
cent
. Italy spent 9 per
cent
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
of
consumer
goods
that all
countries
spent the least
money
was
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on was
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leisure
and
education
. The
country
which spent the most
money
on
leisure
and
education
was Turkey with 4.35 per
cent
and the
country
which spent the least amount of
money
on
leisure
and
education
was Spain with 1.98 per
cent
.
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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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