The table illustrates consumer spending habits, in 2002, with an insight among the five main categories, food/drink/tobacco, clothing/footwear, and leisure/education. The countries observed are: Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.
Overall, for all of the countries the most of expenses are oriented in food and beverage and tobacco, followed by clothing and footwear. Leisure and education are the least categories where people allocated expenditure in.
Ireland and Turkey are those countries which people spend the most in food and beverage and tobacco with 28.91% and 32.14%, respectively. Moreover, Ireland’s dwellers spent less than one-third of food/drinks/tobacco budget in clothing/footwear (6.43%) and just over 2.21% of the whole expenditures in leisure/education. Similarly, Turkey had almost same percentages and proportions. Turkey’s leisure/education were the only noticeable aspect which almost doubled Ireland’s ones.
In contrast to these two countries, Italy, Spain, and Sweden generally spent less in food, beverage and tobacco (16.36%,18.80%, 15.77% respectively). Italy’s dwellers spent more than Spain (6.51%) and Sweden (5.40%) in clothing/footwear (9%). Finally, both Italy and Sweden substantially spent the same in leisure activites and education (3.20%, 3.22% respectively). While, Spain accounts for the country who spent the least in this category.