The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different

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in 2002. It is evident that "food, drinks and tobacco" took the lion's

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of consumer spending in all

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five countries

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the reverse was true for the "leisure/education" category. Regarding Food, Drinks and Tobacco, Turkey was the nation whose expenditure was highest, at 32.14%.

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figure was followed by Ireland's, at 28.91%, which was around 10% higher than Spain's. The data for Italy and Sweden were slightly lower, at somewhere in the vicinity of 16% Compared to Food/Drink/Tobacco, Clothing and Footwear made up significantly smaller proportions of spending.

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the amount of money spent on these items accounted for 9% in Italy, the figure for Ireland, Spain and Turkey was just over 6% but it was still 1% higher than that for Sweden. Noticeably, the smallest percentages of expenditure belonged to

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/Education category. In Turkey, the sum spent on

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service constituted 4.35%, which was over 1% higher compared to that of Sweden and Italy. The figure for Spain and Ireland was trivial, standing at around 2%