Maths and Economy

MATHS AND

ECONOMY

THIS ANALYZE WAS PREPARED

AS A PART OF THE COMENIUS PROJECT

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by the students and the teachers from:

BERKENBOOM HUMANIORA BOVENBOUW, IN SINT-NIKLAAS ( BELGIUM)

EUREKA SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KELLS (IRELAND)

LICEO CLASSICO STATALE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO IN GENOA (ITALY)

GIMNAZJUM IM. ANNY WAZÓWNY IN GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ (POLAND)

ESCOLA SECUNDARIA COM 3.º CICLO D. MANUEL I IN BEJA (PORTUGAL)

IES ÁLVAREZ CUBERO IN PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the

Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the

information contained therein.

COMMENTS OF STATISTIC OF CONSUPTION

In our Comenius project we wanted to compare the Economy of Europe and so for May and

September of this year we collected all our receipts and analysed them and recorded them in a

table. We then joined all the results together and compared all the data.

Mobile expenses

We can see in the graphic, Spanish people spend the least money

on mobile, and in Portugal spend the most on the mobile. The

graphic also shows that the other countries spend about as

much.

Expenses on oil and gas

The amount spent on oil and gas was the most in Belgium as this

result was the average of the entire year .In Belgium they spent an average of 33% of their

budget on oil and gas over the course of the entire year compared to Italy who only spent 6.2

% of their budget in September and May. Apart from Belgium has he highest expenditure and

this reflects the cold climate of the country. In Italy Spain and Portugal air conditioning and

heating are not needed as spring and autumn are not very warm or very cold. Ireland Belgium

and Poland are the most northern countries and as a result have colder climates, therefore

spending more money on oil and gas

This result demonstrates the fact that energy prices in Belgium is one of the highest in

Europe.

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Mobile

The second lowest was Portugal at 6.5% followed by Spain 7.1% .Then Ireland 8.2% and

Poland second highest at 10.1%.

Food

Portugal spends the highest percentage of their budget

on food – 59% and Belgium and Italy spent the least at

27.7% and 28.6%. Ireland was the second highest wit

42% followed closely by Poland 41% and Spain 37%.

Reasons for this difference, is that Belgium usually buy

for low cost supermarkets such as Lidl or Aldi and they

also compare the cost of their food with other

alternatives before buying. Also most families in Belgium

are smaller in comparison with Portugal whose family

sizes are much bigger. Prices of food in Portugal may be

higher or it may be due to the fact that they go out to

restaurants more often.

Transport

Poland spends the most on transport at 14.8% while Portugal spent the least at 5.9%. Reasons

of why they spend so much on transport in Poland is that Poland is a very rural place and they

may need to spend longer travelling each day , therefore increasing the cost of transport . In

comparison Portugal is more built up and cosmopolitan and so the need to travel is less.

Italy as the second lowest with 7.1%, followed by Ireland 10.2%. The next highest were

Belgium 12.8% followed by Portugal at 14.3%.

Clothes

Belgium spent the least on clothes with only 4.5 % of

their income going to clothes. Poland was the opposite

with 15.2 % Portugal was the second highest 14.8%

followed by Spain 13.6 % then Italy at 10.8% and

Ireland at 9.8%.

Weekend

Belgium spends the most at the weekend 7.9% and Poland spent the least 2.6%. Ireland was

the second highest at 7% and Italy the next at 6.4%. Spain was the second lowest at 4%

followed by 5.9%.

Other

We included the rest of our activities that could not be categorized into other example school

expenses insurance hospital expenses .Italy was the highest at 38.4% and Portugal was the

lowest with 3.8% .Spain was the second highest with 22.5% followed by Ireland 20.3%. And

Poland at 13.2 %. Belgium was the second lowest with 11.4%

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