A new statistical methodology for evaluating the diffusion of milk in the Spanish Population: Consumer groups and milk consumption, 1865–1981

Ismael Hernández Adell, Francisco Muñoz Pradas and Josep Pujol-Andreu
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Ismael Hernández Adell: Escola Superior CCSocials i de l’Empresa, Tecnocampus Mataró, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Ernest LLuch 32, 08302 Mataró, Barcelona, Spain
Francisco Muñoz Pradas: Departament de Geografia, Campus de Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Josep Pujol-Andreu: Departament d’Economia i Història Econòmica, Campus de Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2019, vol. 15, issue 01, 23-37

Abstract: This article analyses the diffusion of milk consumption in Spain between 1865 and 1980, and uses a new statistical approach to estimate consumer groups and their milk consumption. This new methodology shows that these variables increased at different speeds chronologically and geographically. Two main phases can be distinguished in terms of the diffusion of milk consumption. The first phase, between the mid-19thcentury and the 1950s, was characterisedby concentratedconsumptioninproducer regions and big cities and the persistence of stark differences between regions. The second, between the 1950s and the 1980s, was chiefly characterised by an increase in the total number of consumers and the disappearance of these regional differences. KEY Classification-JEL: N34. N54. N94

Keywords: Milk; consumption.; Nutritional; transition.; Spain.; Regional; differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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