Quantitative analysis of the household’s expenditure for food

• Authors: Dudek H.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the dependence of the share of households’ food expenditure on the total expenditure and the household’s size. This problem is important in applied welfare economics. According to the Engel’s law, the poorer household, the greater proportion of its total expenditure is devoted to the food consumption. In the study, the Working-Leser model was applied to Polish households microeconomic data from 2000, 2005 and 2009.

Keywords

EN

quantitative analysis; household expenditure; food expenditure; food consumption; household size; Poland; European Union

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 11(26)
• Issue: 3
• Physical description: p.23-30,fig.,ref.

Contributors

author

Dudek H.

• Chair of Econometrics and Statistics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland