The column graph presents the money spent on six different consumer items in four European countries. In general, the patterns of spending on these consumables varied across the four nations in the survey.
As can be seen from the column graph, Britain expended the most on these six items while Germany spent the least across the four countries. The expenditure on personal stereos by British people was about as high as that on tennis racquets, at roughly £154,000, while their spendings on the other four items ranged from approximately £160,000 on perfumes to around £172,000 on film rolls. By contrast, the money spent on these consumables by Germans was more or less varying between about £146,000 on CDs and around £150,000 on tennis racquets.
Turning to the other two nations, their spendings on these consumer goods were in the middle range across the four countries. The figures for personal stereos, tennis racquets, and perfumes in Italy were roughly £2,000, £9,000, and £7,000 higher than those in France, which were approximately £148,000, £144,000, and £146,000 respectively. In contrast, the amount of money spent on CDs and photographic film by French people was approximately £5,000 and £10,000 larger than those by Italian people, which were about £153,000 and £156,000 respectively. Meanwhile, the spending on toys in France, at around £158,000, was about as high as that in Italy.