Topic : The table below gives informationa on consumer spending on differnt items in five different countries in 2002

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Spending patterns of different countries are quite distinct. This table demonstrates the percentage of national consumer expenditure of Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.

In food, drinks and Tobacco, most of the countries regard it as the most important category. Especially Turkey's spending on them is over 30% and also Ireland is nearly that figure.

Next, important position of consumer expenditure is clothing and Footwear. The average percentage of that is about 6.8. Among them Italy spend on that is the highest(9.00%)

The lowest part of spending is Leisure and Education. In particular, Spain use the smallest amount of money on that.