Many measurements of consumer welfare have been proposed to reflect the income equivalent of a welfare change Measures used in policy evaluations are compensating variation, equivalent variation, Paasche variation, Laspeyres variation, and consumer's surplus This research presents an empirical...

This article analyzes 1955 data on gross farm income, production expenditures, net income, and marketing charges, by major commodity groups. This piece of research is largely a byproduct of the Agricultural Industrial Relations Study of 1955 which provided some insights into the impact of...

From time to time, many farm operators are faced with a choice between buying one of several types and sizes of combines and hiring a custom machine. Heretofore, research studies designed to aid farmers in making sound decisions of this type have considered primarily the effect of annual use, or...

In this review of the consumer preference work that has been carried on in the Bureau, the author covers the purpose, the scope, and selected findings. The program of research provides data which can be beneficial to producers, processors, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers.

If the entire U.S. population were to select one food pattern among those that meet the American Heart Association recommendations for a fat-controlled, low-cholesterol diet, calorie intake would decline about 13 percent compared with present consumption. The cost would be about a tenth higher,...

Measures of per capita dollar incomes seem, at first hand, to be a good simple first approximation to obtaining some idea of the differences that exist between farmers' living standards and those of nonfarmers at any one point in time. But unfortunately, the following factors, among others, make...

Over the last 20 years, consumers have spent a declining portion of their income on food for consumption at home, while the share of income spent on meals purchased at restaurants, cafeterias, and fast-food chains has held constant This article attempts to explain this phenomenon by estimating a...

The relative merits of different methods of measuring volume of retail sales of particular commodities has been a debated subject in recent years. As a byproduct of an experiment in retail store merchandising, a direct comparison of some alternative methods is made in this paper, a matter of...

This article presents newly developed national estimates of average income, per farm and per person in the farm family, for each economic class of farm in 1949. Aggregates and averages of farm income and expenditures are published regularly in considerable detail in The Farm Income Situation....

The problem of allocating farm income among the factors of production has long received the attention of agricultural economists. Progress toward a satisfactory solution has been impeded, both by difficult conceptual problems and by lack of adequate statistical data. In the following article,...