poorest countries spend more than half of income on food, whilein the richest countries, this is one-tenth or less. We use the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing household food consumption away from home in … Beijing by type of food facility and type of meal. Design/methodology/approach – Derived from the Becker's household … production and consumption theory, the authors econometrically specified household expenditure function on food away from home …

The objective of this study is to provide an insight into demand patterns of the Malay consumers for specific food … categories in Malaysia. By utilizing Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005, a system of equations of Linear Approximate Almost … Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model for 12 aggregated food products is estimated using a two-step estimation procedure. A …

Relative to non-food items, food tends to be cheaper in rich, as compared with poor European countries. This tendency … specified, indicates that the relative price of food is related positively to the supply of food items and negatively to that of … non-food items. This finding is consistent with "agricultural price scissors", and also casts a different light on the …

The paper analyzes food consumption patterns of Vietnamese households, using a complete demand system and socio … household survey data in 2006. The results indicate that food consumption patterns in Vietnam are affected by income, price, as … well as socio-economic and geographic factors. All food has positive expenditure elasticities and negative own …

. However, the statistics of the various Household Expenditure Surveys in Malaysia reported increasing food away from home (FAFH …As Malaysians’ per capita income continues to grow, the food budget shares declines, which refers to Engel’s law … extended to FAFH in Malaysia. …

This study uses the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System to estimate food demand among Filipino households. Our study … price data on food groups. Results show that demand for rice with respect to prices and expenditures is relatively inelastic … compared with that for other food groups. The income elasticity for rice is inelastic (0.26), slightly higher than the income …

specific time period). This paper analyses consumer demand for food variety in Germany. The econometric analysis of 4 … full-time. A single male household consumes a significantly smaller number of different food products. The significant (and … positive) impact of household income on food variety is in line with the hypothesis that consumption evolves along a …