Analyses of consumers' dietary behavior: An application of the AIDS model to supermarket scanner data

Eugene Jones, Cuma Akbay, Brian Roe and Wen S. Chern
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Eugene Jones: Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: Jones.73@osu.edu, Postal: Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: Jones.73@osu.edu
Cuma Akbay: Department of Agricultural Economics, Sutcu Iman University, Kahraman Maras, Turkey, Postal: Department of Agricultural Economics, Sutcu Iman University, Kahraman Maras, Turkey
Wen S. Chern: Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210, Postal: Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210

Agribusiness, 2003, vol. 19, issue 2, 203-221

Abstract: Nationwide food consumption surveys often find no difference in the diets of lower and higher income Americans, while studies of particular food commodities find major differences. These contrasting results represent a consumption paradox. We attempt to gain an understanding of this paradox by using supermarket scanner data to examine food purchases and, by extension, consumption patterns for consumers in two, geographically distinct, income areas. These areas are part of the larger Columbus, OH, metropolitan area (CMA) and six stores are selected for purchase and consumption analyses-three from the lowest income areas of the CMA and three from the highest income areas. Seven product categories are analyzed in this study and these categories are subdivided into meaningful nutritional classes. An Almost Ideal Demand System is employed and the empirical results reveal major differences in consumption behavior for the two groups. [EconLit citations: D120 and D190.] © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 19: 203-221, 2003.

Date: 2003
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