Food Prices, Expenditures & Costs
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Related Amber Waves Articles
ERS develops and monitors indicators of individual, household,
and market-level food consumption, prices, expenditures, food
marketing costs, and farm-to-retail price spreads. Food choices are
influenced by prices and income as well as other factors.
ERS conducts research on:
- the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food which is probably the
most widely used indicator of changes in retail food
prices,
- food expenditures which are calculated by estimating current
sales or receipts by each type of store that sells food, allowing
the analysis of changes in American food consumption patterns,
- the food dollar series which measures annual expenditures by
U.S. consumers on domestically produced food. This data series is
composed of three primary series--the marketing bill
series, the industry group series, and the
primary factor series--that shed light on different
aspects of the food supply chain, and
- price spreads which compares the prices paid by consumers for
food with the prices received by farmers for their corresponding
commodities.