The table illustrates the percentage of consumer expenditure on three categories food, drink and tobacco; clothing and footwear; leisure and education in 5 different nation in the year 2002
overall Turkey had the highest proportion of spending on food, drinks and tobacco. Italy had the greatest percentage of expenditure on clothing and footwear and again for the leisure and education turkey had the highest spending
In detail Turkey’s expenditure on food, drinks and tobacco stood at 32.14%, the largest among the 5 nations, followed by Ireland with 28.91%. The lowest spending country on this category was sweden with only 15.77%. Italy and spain spent 16.36% and 18.80% respectively.
Italy has the highest market spending on the category clothing and footwear with 9% while sweeden remained least spent country even in this category with only 5.40% and other 3 remaining countries expenditure was around 6.5%. For all the 5 country leisure and education was the least spent on category. Turkey leading once again with 4.35% while the lowest being Spain with only 1.98%. Italy and Sweden have almost same proportion with 3.20% and 3.22%
