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

The table illustrates the proportion of national

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in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey on three types of

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items in 2002.

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, most people in the five countries spent their money on food, drink and Tobacco,

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the lowest

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was on leisure and Education.

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, Turki was the country with the highest outlay compared to the four countries. In terms of food, drinks and Tobacco, Turkey spent the most at 32,14% followed by Ireland, at 28,91 %. It compared with Sweden and Italy spent at least (15.77%) and (16.36%) respectively.

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, Leisure and Education was the least of

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which accounted for under 5%. In

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outlay, the Turki

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dominated around 4.35%. The next items were clothing and footwear which were dominated by

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spending from Italy at 9%.

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, Sweden was the lowest country which bought

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stuff at 5.40%. The remaining countries have similar rates of

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in clothing and footwear, just over 6%.