The provided table presents data on consumer spending in five countries (Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey) for three categories in 2002.
Overall, Turkey and Ireland lead in expenditure on food, drinks, and tobacco, followed by Italy, Spain, and Sweden. Italy tops the list in spending on clothing and footwear, with Turkey and Sweden following. Turkey leads in leisure and education expenditures, with Sweden ranking second.
Among five given countries in the table, consumer spending on food, dinks and tobacco as noticeable higher in Turkey and Ireland were at 32.14% and 28.91% while other countries (Spain,Italy,Sweden) shares are less than 20%. But on clothing and footwear list the situation is different from first column which leader changed to Italy with 9% and followed by Turkey with 6.63% and others also near at 6% of market place.
On the leisure and education part of table the situation is very similar with food, dinks and tobacco because of Turkey’s leadership with 4.35% and Sweden second rank by 3.22%. In the following places Italy with 3.20% than Ireland and Spain escorted by less than 3 percentage.
