The table below gives information on consumer spending

The table illustrates the proportion of consumer expenditure on a variety of products in five countries in the year 2002.

Overall

,

it is clear that

people tend to spend cash on food, drinks and tobacco

however

they are not keen on using it in leisure and education.

To begin

with, food, beverages and tobacco were consumed by

Turkey

in 2002 which occupied 32.14% followed by Ireland with 28.91%. Spaniards spent their money on these items around 18.80% and both Italy and Sweden had a fraction less than

Turkey

by half.

Additionally

, consumers in Italy use their cash on clothing and footwear at 9%.

Turkey

, Spain and Ireland almost had the same percentage which was about nearly 6.5%. Sweden came in the

last

place with exactly 5.40%.

Moreover

, as same as in products for consumption,

Turkey

also

came in

the

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first place in leisure and education expenditure with 4.35% in 2002. There was an unnoticeable gap in

this

item between Sweden and Italy, by 0.02%.

Furthermore

, Ireland and Spain registered 2.21% and 1.98% respectively.