Writing Feedback / Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002 (Writing Task 1) [2]

This table presents how costumer expenditure in five different countries in Europe on five different items. At first glance, it is evident that while five countries made use of expenditure dominantly for food, drinks, and tobacco purposes but much less on leisure and education purposes.

Food/ drinks/ tobacco was the largest expenditure item for Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey, with all of them spending around more than a quarter from of their income on this, at 28.91%, 16.36%, 18.80%, 15.77%, 32.14%. In contrast, they spend approximately one-twenty on leisure and education. To begin, Turkey had the highest spend of income, at almost one-third or 32,14% on food, drinks and tobacco. Accounting for a lowest amount of used for food, drinks and tobacco purposes was Sweden (15,77%), it was almost a half from Turkey's expenditure. Italy lead the percentage on the clothing and footwear at 9.00% while at the same category, Sweden also take the last place with figure less than 6% or 5.40%. Next, other four countries were around 6%. Interestingly, costumer spending in five countries for leisure and education purposes were very low, less than 5% or around one-twenty from a whole spending proportion.