The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in jive different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table data compares consuming styles regarding consumer spending on three categories of products and services in five countries in 2002.

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, food, drinks and tobacco took up the largest proportions of

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consumer expenditure, whilst leisure and education had the lowest percentage in each country. The percentages of spending on clothing/footwear stood in the middle, slightly higher than those of leisure/education. Notably, consumers in Turkey and Ireland contributed to the higher amount of spending on food/drink/tobacco with respective percentages of 32.14% and 28.91%. In stark comparison, people in the other three countries spent less than 20% for

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category, with Sweden spending less than half of that of Turkey. The expenditure on clothing and footwear and leisure and education presented a relatively small gap below 5% among the countries except Italy, where the disparity reached almost 6%.

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, the gap between the first and second categories presented the smallest degree in Italy.