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The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002
The table presents the percentage of citizens' consumer expenditure in three categories in five countries in 2002.
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, all five nations spent the most on food/drinks/tobacco and leisure/education became the smallest. As we can see, food/drinks/tobacco had more than one-eight in each country, the largest was Turkey at just above one-third followed by Ireland with 28.91%
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 the least proportion in
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 category was Sweden at almost 16%. Clothing/footwear was the second category with a percentage rate ranging from 5% to 9%. Italy recorded as the biggest spender in
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 category at just one
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 below 10% and there was one country that written below 6% which is Sweden. Leisure/Education, which only averaged about 2-3% of five nations' spending, made Turkey the highest at 4.35%, followed by Sweden and Italy at 3.22% and 3.20%, respectively.

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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • percent
  • percentage
  • share
  • category
  • item
  • country
  • countries
  • table
  • figure
  • spend
  • spending
  • buy
  • cost
  • costs
  • increase
  • rise
  • grow
  • go up
  • decrease
  • fall
  • drop
  • stay
  • remain
  • high
  • low
  • big
  • small
  • large
  • major
  • minor
  • more than
  • less than
  • than
  • as
  • compared with
  • in comparison with
  • overall
  • generally
  • in general
  • across
  • across the five countries
  • pattern
  • trend
  • difference
  • similar
  • different
  • biggest
  • smallest
  • highest
  • lowest
  • notable
  • unusual
  • interesting
  • example
  • for instance
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