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International Evidence on Food Consumption Patterns

By James Seale, Jr., Anita Regmi, and Jason A. Bernstein

Technical Bulletin No. (TB-1904) 70 pp, October 2003

This report analyzes expenditures on major consumption categories including food and different food subcategories across 114 countries. It also presents estimated expenditure responsiveness or elasticities with price and income changes for each of the major consumption categories and food subcategories for individual countries in the study.

Keywords: consumption, cross-country demand, complete demand system, food demand, demand elasticity, heteroskedasticity, maximum likelihood, ERS, USDA

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Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.


The data in this report are available electronically. See the International Food Consumption Patterns database.


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Updated date: October 6, 2003

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