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

The table illustrates the proportion of

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expenditure

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in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and

Turkey

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on three types of

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goods

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in 2002.

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, the category of

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goods

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that all

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spent most on was food, drinks and tobacco, which was three times higher than on the other types of

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. The lowest spending could be seen in the category of leisure and education in all five

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. The outlay of

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was generally higher than the other four

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. In terms of food, drinks and tobacco,

Turkey

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spent the most at 32.14%. The

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of Ireland was

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high (28.91%) compared to Sweden which spent the least (15.77%). Spain and Italy spent 18.80% and 16.36% respectively.

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, the lowest

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was on leisure and education which accounted for under 5% in all

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.

Turkey

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spent most on these items at just 4.35% of their national

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which is around double that of Spain (1.98%). Clothing and footwear was the third category of

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goods

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and outlays for those items were between 9% in Italy and 5.40% in Sweden. The national spending in

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area for the remaining

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averaged around 6.5%.