Between Transition and Enlargement: The Composition of Consumption in European Households

Schenkel, Marina; Sturam, Daniele; Occari, Fabio

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“…The Engel curve is a powerful tool for understanding consumer behaviour and household welfare. Engel's law is confirmed, given that at lower income levels, the percentage of food consumption is more significant, even though, in real terms, the absolute level of food consumption has, in most cases, been reduced (Schenkel et al, 2005). As income levels rise, consumers will seek out more expensive types of food.…”

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Rural Household Food Consumption in Bengkulu, Indonesia: Estimating a Demand System Based on SUSENAS Microdata

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Matsuda²

2022

JAS

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The paper aims to estimate the food demand of rural households in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia, using the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) and microdata from the SUSENAS. We aggregate food into five groups: staple food, animal food, vegetables & fruits, prepared food, and other food. The results show that demand for animal food is the most sensitive to food expenditure, whereas the demand for staple food is the most expenditure-inelastic. Staple food, animal food, vegetables & fruits, and other food are substitutes for each other. On the other hand, prepared food and staple food complement each other. Other food is the easiest to be substituted, and staple food is the most difficult to be substituted. The demographic variables, as well as prices and expenditures, impact household demand. For example, as family size increases, the demand for staple food increases, while the demand for animal food, vegetables & fruits decreases. The number of children under five years old has a positive impact on animal food demand but a negative impact on staple food and other food demand. Staple farmer households have a higher need for staple food than non-agricultural households. Due to being unmarried, divorced or bereaved, single households have a lower demand for staple food but a higher demand for prepared food. We mainly imply that the food price stabilization policy should emphasize animal food, especially beef and poultry, without increasing prices.

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Rural Household Food Consumption in Bengkulu, Indonesia: Estimating a Demand System Based on SUSENAS Microdata

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Matsuda²

2022

JAS

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Procedures and criteria to develop and evaluate household sustainable consumption indicators

Caeiro

Ramos

Huisingh

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Communication about very complex problems like household sustainable consumption in simple terms is still a major challenge. Despite the diversity of tools to measure household consumption, clearer indicators are needed to more effectively communicate with the general public. The main objective of this research was to develop an approach to define the main procedures and criteria to built household sustainable consumption assessment tools based on indicator sets. A review of available household sustainable consumption assessment metrics and related initiatives was conducted; this included a comparative analysis of the different approaches. The review revealed that the majority of these initiatives are focused upon specific domains (e.g. energy or waste), but none used an integrated approach in the sustainable consumption domains. Furthermore, it was found that few methods used indicators to measure and assess household sustainable consumption. Principal components and a checklist of key good-practice factors that a household sustainable consumption indicator system should include were developed. Due to the need to communicate effectively, to engage stakeholders and to address the complexity involved in the measurement and assessment of household sustainable consumption, the proposed integrated approach was designed to evaluate household sustainable consumption.

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Changes in the level and structure of food expenses in the European Union in the context of increasing household incomes

Kata

Cyrek

2020

Economia Agro-Alimentare

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Changes in the consumption model are inherent in the processes of socio-economic development the indicator of which is the enrichment of the population. Such changes include the emergence of new proportions in the consumption of particular categories of goods and services, and, according to the regularities observed by Engel, lower the share of expenditure on a broadly understood category of food. Increasing incomes are also linked to changes in the internal structure of food consumption. This study is to assess the changes in the level and structure of food expenses resulting from the enrichment of the European Union (EU) societies. The study covered the co-occurrence of differences in food consumption with households' income differences in the EU countries. The analyses presented in the study relate to the period after the EU enlargement in 2004 and are based on the Eurostat data. The research allows for a positive verification of the thesis that the higher the incomes, the more balanced the structure of food expenses. In more affluent economies, the consumption of a more diversified basket of goods is observed. This finding is supported by the high negative correlation between the structure concentration ratio for food expenditure and the households' income level. In addition, the identification of country clusters based on consumption expenditure broken down into food categories makes it possible to confirm the thesis that there are income differences between economies with different consumption models. It is confirmed by the variance analysis concerning income level for countries in three groups: the South Europe with the highest food expenses, the Central and Eastern Europe with the most limited spending and the lowest income, and the affluent "old" EU members with high expenses on luxuries consumed for social reasons. However, the analyses presented here do not allow for validation of the thesis that food consumption patterns among the EU countries become similar, but rather point to the predominance of the consumption divergence processes, which occur despite the declining income differences. This claim is based on the observation of increasing average Euclidian distance between food expenses in the EU countries in 2005 and 2015. Nevertheless, some signs of shift towards Mediterranean consumption patterns may be found for many societies.

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Between Transition and Enlargement: The Composition of Consumption in European Households

Abstract: transition, consumption patterns, P36, D12, E21,

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Rural Household Food Consumption in Bengkulu, Indonesia: Estimating a Demand System Based on SUSENAS Microdata

Rural Household Food Consumption in Bengkulu, Indonesia: Estimating a Demand System Based on SUSENAS Microdata

Procedures and criteria to develop and evaluate household sustainable consumption indicators

Changes in the level and structure of food expenses in the European Union in the context of increasing household incomes

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