HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION OF FOOD IN AUSTRALIA

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This paper is the second (see the first reference) in the series of studies entitled “Household Consumption and Income in Australia.” undertaken by the author to analyse data from an Australia‐wide consumption survey (Drane, Edwards and Gates, 1969). Whereas the first study was an investigation into the overall consumption patterns, the present study is devoted to analysing intensively the patterns of household food consumption. Food is especially important since it is the largest single consumption item in the family budget. In this paper the analysis is extended in two main directions. The first is the disaggregation of total food consumption into its components. The degree of disaggregation, however, is limited by the availability of detailed information. Accordingly, only five components of expenditure on food could be effectively considered. The second direction is the investigation of the possible differences in food consumption patterns among various sociological and demographic groups. To that end multivariate statistical techniques have been employed.The first section of this paper gives a brief description of the scope and limitations of the study and sets out different hypotheses that could be tested. The second section discusses the appropriate statistical techniques and the estimation methods that would be useful, while the results and their exposition have been presented in the third section. The final section contains a short comparative study and a few concluding remarks.

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