Table Task 1-National Consumer Expenditure In Europe

Question

 

The table illustrates the expenditure on three different categories in Ireland, Italy, Spain,Sweden and Turkey in 2002.

In general, Turkey possessed the highest percentage for both food, drinks, cigarettes and entertainment and education expenditure. However, clothes and shoes were bought in the greatest amount by Italy.

As can be seen from the table, the food, beverages and tobacco consumption of Turkey was the highest proportion at approximately 32% and nearly doubled that of Sweden, Italy and Spain (close to 16%, 16% and 18% respectively).

On the other hand, the figure for clothing and footwear purchased in Italy was the greatest at exactly 9% and roughly twice as much as higher than that of Sweden, i.e 5%. Moreover, followed that by the rate of clothes and shoes consumptions of Ireland, Spain, Turkey (all of them were around 6.5%).

It is noticeable that recreation and education expenditure were the smallest features of all three items. In particular, half of amusement and training consumption of Turkey was virtually equal to those of Spain and Ireland, accounting for 2%. Likewise, leisure and eduacation expenditure of Italy and Sweden were comparatively equivalent, practically 3%.

 

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Answer 1

The table illustrates the percentage of consumer’s expenditure on 3 main categories in 5 different countries in the year 2002.

As can be seen from the figure, Turkish consumer’s expenditure on food accounted for 32.14%. Followed by Ireland’s figure which made up 28.91% and the percentage of the remained 3 countries (Spain, Italy, Sweden) decreased gradually, at 18.8%, 16.36% and 15.77% respectively. In contrast, Italian people spent mostly on clothing and shoes, the proportion for that was 9% while the figure for the Swedish was much lower, at 5.4%. Ireland, Spain, and Turkey were reported to have just slightly different percent.

On the other hand, European consumer’s spending on entertainment and Education was relatively low. The highest proportion for this category belonged to Turkey (4.35%), compared to only 1.98% of Spanish people.

Overall, of all 5 European countries which were surveyed in 2002, most of the national consumers spending on beverages/food/cigarette and clothes/shoes, whereas the percentage of those spending on leisure/education was much lower.