Consumer preferences for meat may be changing, If so, market clearing retail prices will be higher or lower than If no such changes occurred It Will be several year,s before statistical analysts have enough price-quantity observations to determine whether these alleged shifts m preference for...

An accumulation of knowledge of sampling errors is valuable for purposes of improving the design of samples and the interpretation of results. This article contributes to such knowledge a comparative analysis of alternative sampling methods, based on data from a recent marketing survey.

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,...

The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

Per capita figures in general permit an assessment of changes in economic quantities and values over time, unobscured by trends in population size. Use of total population as the divisor implicitly assumes that each member of the population has equal importance as a consumer or spender, or that...