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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

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

Sample Answer 1:
The table data represents the amount spent by consumers in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and
Turkey in three categories in the year 2002. As is presented in the table data, People of those
countries spent more on foods and tobaccos than they did for dresses, education and
entertainments.
According to the given data, Turk people spent the highest percentage of foods and tobaccos
amounting one-third of their total expenses on consumer products. Irish people spent more
than 28% on this category while people of Italy, Spain and Sweden spent just over 15% for
foods and tobaccos. For clothing and footwear, the people of these five countries spent around
5% to 9% of which Italian spent the highest percentage (9%).
Interestingly the expenditure in leisure activities and education was much less than the amount
spent on food, tobacco and dresses. The highest amount spent on education and entertainment
was done by Turkish people (4.35%) and the least amount spent by was in Spain (1.98%). No
nation among the given five spent more than 5% in education and leisure activities according to
the given data.

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