The table compares consumer expenditure on three different types of goods in five nations in 2002.
Overall, consumers in all five countries devoted the largest share of their budgets to food, drinks and tobacco, while leisure and education received the least spending from purchasers. Additionally, Turkey recorded the highest outlay across all items, whereas consumers in Sweden allocated the least to the three categories.
In terms of food, drinks and tobacco, consumers in Turkey paid 32.14% of their budget for this type of goods, leading all five nations. Ireland followed closely with 28.91% of the consumer’s spending, which is around 3.23 percentages lower than Turkey. Spain and Italy spent smaller shares, at 18.80% and 16.36% respectively, while purchasers in Sweden devoted the least, accounting for only 15.77% of their budgets.
For clothing and footwear, Italian consumers spent 9% of their expenditure on this category, making them the highest spenders compared with the other nations. The remaining three countries – Spain, Turkey and Ireland had almost similar figures with the populations of each country allocating 6.51%, 6.63% and 6.43% of their budgets, respectively. However, spending in Sweden remained the lowest, with only 5.40% of budgets devoted to clothing and footwear.
Regarding leisure and education, Turkey again topped the list with 4.35% of residents’ spending. Close behind were Italy and Sweden with 3.20% and 3.22% of their budgets while Ireland spent approximately 1% lower, at 2.21%. Finally, Spanish consumers contributed 1.98% of budgets to leisure and education, becoming the country spending the least among five nations.