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The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in 5 different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in 5 different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table provides data on the percentage of
consumer
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 spending in five
countries
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 (Ireland, Italy, Spain,
Sweden
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, and
Turkey
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) across three categories: food/drink/tobacco, clothing/footwear, and
leisure
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/
education
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 in 2002.
Overall
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, food/drink/tobacco had the highest
consumer
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 expenditure across all five
countries
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, with
Turkey
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 and Ireland leading
this
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category
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. Italy showed the highest spending on clothing/footwear,
whereas
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 spending on
leisure
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/
education
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 remained low across all
countries
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. In the food/drink/tobacco
category
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,
Turkey
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 had the largest share of
consumer
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 spending at 32.14%, followed closely by Ireland at 28.91%.
In contrast
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, Italy, Spain, and
Sweden
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 spent less than 19% in
this
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category
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, with
Sweden
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 having the lowest expenditure at 15.77%. For clothing/footwear, Italy recorded the highest expenditure, with 9% of
consumer
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 spending allocated to
this
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category
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. The other
countries
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 all spent below 7%, with
Sweden
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 reporting the lowest figure at 5.40%. Spending on
leisure
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/
education
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 was minimal in all
countries
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.
Turkey
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 again led
this
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category
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 with 4.35%,
while
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 Spain gave the least amount, at 1.98%.
Sweden
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 and Italy spent around 3.2% each, and Ireland’s spending on
leisure
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 and
education
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 was slightly lower, at 2.21%.

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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words consumer, countries, sweden, turkey, leisure, education, category with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
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