Writing task 1-Table

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different
items in five different countries in 2002.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features,
and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category -2002

Country	Food/Drinks/Tobacco	Clothing/Footwear	Leisure/Education
Ireland	28.91%	6.43%	2.21%
Italy	16.36%	9.00%	3.20%
Spain	18.80%	6.51%	1.98%
Sweden	15.77%	5.40%	3.22%
Turkey	32.14%	6.63%	4.35%

The table below provides information about spending on different items of comsumer among Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.

Overall, percentage of consumer spending on food/drinks/tobaco items in five countries is the highest and leisure/education is the lowest. Also, there are significant differences between consumer spending on clothing/footwear items in Italy and in four other countries.

It can be seen that Turkey had the highest consumer using food/drinks/tobacco items with 32.14% and the follow country is Ireland with 28.91%. Other countries had the percentage of consumer approximately the same, Spain with 18.80%, Italy with 16.36% and Sweden with 15.77%.

Turning to the two other items, proportion of consumer is double between clothing/footwear items and leisure/education items. In clothing/footwear items, there had a considerable difference between consumer in Italy and the others. While Italy reached the proportion of 9%, the four other countries had a fluctuation of 6%. In leisure/education items, Spain had the lowest percentage of 1.98%.