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The Moderating Effect of Seasonality on Household Apparel Expenditure
Author(s) -
WAGNER JANET,
MOKHTARI MANOUCHEHR
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2000.tb00096.x
Subject(s) - consumer expenditure survey , clothing , seasonality , per capita , ordinary least squares , consumer expenditure , economics , demographic economics , income elasticity of demand , agricultural economics , aggregate expenditure , econometrics , public economics , demography , geography , statistics , mathematics , population , archaeology , sociology
This research explores if and how seasonality moderates the effect of consumer characteristics on household per capita expenditure for apparel. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis was based on quarterly micropanel data from the Continuing Consumer Expenditure Survey. The results confirmed that seasonality moderates the relationship between consumer characteristics and per capita apparel expenditure: the income elasticity of apparel expenditure varied by season as did the effects of age, ethnicity, household size, region, and housing tenure.