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

The table illustrates the proportion of
consumer
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expenditure
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in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and
Turkey
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on three types of
consumer
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goods
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in 2002.
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, the category of
consumer
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goods
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that all
countries
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spent
most
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the most
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on was food, drinks and tobacco, which was three times higher than on the other types of
goods
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. The lowest spending could be seen in the category of leisure and education in all five
countries
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. The outlay of
Turkey
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was generally higher than the other four
countries
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. In terms of food, drinks and tobacco,
Turkey
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spent the most at 32.14%. The
expenditure
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of Ireland was
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high (28.91%) compared to Sweden
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spent the least (15.77%). Spain and Italy spent 18.80% and 16.36% respectively.
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, the lowest
expenditure
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was on leisure and education
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accounted for under 5% in all
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.
Turkey
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spent
most
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the most
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on these items at just 4.35% of their national
expenditure
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which
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is around double that of Spain (1.98%). Clothing and footwear
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the third category of
consumer
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goods
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and
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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%.

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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words consumer, expenditure, turkey, goods, countries with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • consumer spending
  • items
  • countries
  • comparison
  • overview
  • table
  • data
  • information
  • proportion
  • percentage
  • figures
  • categories
  • expenditure
  • purchases
  • spending habits
  • trends
  • average
  • highest
  • lowest
  • variation
  • pattern
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