The pie charts illustrate the proportion of online shopping websites among Australia and New zealand’s citizens while the table demonstrates the percentage of several reasons for online shopping, consisting of price concern, convenience, quality, and other reasons in 2012. Overall, it can be clearly seen that Australia and New Zealand had the similar trend of both website use as well as the reasons for purchasing.
According to the given pie charts, both local and international websites were the most popular for online shopping, accounting for 72% in Australia and 65% in New Zealand. Local websites were ranked second, at 20% for Australia and 25% for New Zealand while approximately 10% were identified in international websites for both countries.
Regarding the table, over half of reasons for online shopping were lower prices than physical stores, being at 53% for Australia and 57% for New Zealand. For convenience and quality of product, Australia had a higher percentage than New Zealand in both reasons, 24% and 22% for Australia while New Zealand showed 18% and 16% respectively. Other reasons represented an equal proportion for both countries at 5%.
To sum up, although both nations had the freedom of shopping, price and convenience were the most consideration rather than quality of goods.