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Household Demand for Convenience and Nonconvenience Foods
Author(s) -
Capps Oral,
Tedford John R.,
Havlicek Joseph
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1241827
Subject(s) - almost ideal demand system , economics , consumer expenditure , agricultural economics , consumer demand , household income , consumer expenditure survey , business , labour economics , aggregate expenditure , public economics , microeconomics , production (economics) , geography , archaeology
A variation of the Almost Ideal Demand System was employed to determine the impacts of total food expenditure, income, food prices, household size, and demographic variables on household demand for convenience and nonconveninece foods in the United States. The budget shares are generally more responsive to prices than to real total expenditure. Additionally, the quantities demanded of convenience and nonconvenience foods are generally more sensitive to changes in income and own‐prices than to changes in cross‐prices. With regard to demographic variates, primary users of convenience foods are white households with employed household managers less than 35 years of age.