Band 6+: The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2005. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. Make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The given table illustrates the data of how much money that consumers allocated on five different products divided by five nations in 2002.

Overall, all of the countries’ biggest investment was on food, drinks and tobacco. By contrast, the spending on leisure and education always remained to be the lowest. and for the footwear, there is a relative alightment in most of the nations’ spenditure except for Italy.

Through the table, Ireland and turkey residents’ spenditure on food, drinks and tobacco was the highest with 28.91% and 32.14% respectively, leaving three other nations a huge distance at least 10%.

Concerning clothing and footwear, no country exceeded 7% excepted for Italy (9%), there were similar figures for Ireland, spain, Sweden and turkey from more than 5% to 6.51%.

For the last category, spain appeared to have the lowest investment on this, just nearly 2%. Meanwhile this number in turkey was roughly double, making it to be the nation whose payment on leisure and education was the highest. And for the remaining countries, not many differences were observed in their spending on this type of items, with their ranges from 2.12% to 3.22%.