Writing report

The table provides data on the number of different items from five different countries namely Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, spending in 2002. In general, people of those countries spent more on food and tobacco than they did for dresses, education, and entertainment. According to the given data, Turkish nationals spent the highest percentage of food and tobacco, accounting for one-third of their total expense on consumer products. Irish people spent more than 28% on this category, while people of Italy, Spain, and Sweden spent just over 15% on food and tobacco. For clothing and footwear, these five countries spent just around 5% to 9%, of which Italian spent the highest proportion. Interstingly, the expenditure in leisure activities and education was much less than the amount spent on food, tobacco and dresses. The highest amount spent on education was done by Turkish people (4,35%) and least by the Spanish (1.98%).