HOUSEHOLD FOOD SPENDING BY SELECTED DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE 1990s

Noel Blisard and James Michael Harris

No 33610, Agricultural Information Bulletins from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Average per-person total food expenditures, adjusted for inflation, declined about 7 percent between 1990 and 1998, from $2,189 to $2,037. This decline resulted primarily from the average at-home food expenditures per person declining by about 6 percent and the away-from-home food expenditures declining by about 8 percent. Price-adjusted food spending reflects changes in the real price of food as well as any quantity adjustments made by consumers. However, the national average masks the fact that some population subgroups had significantly higher or lower food expenditures than average. For example, while total food spending declined for all demographic groups except female-headed and Black households, these two demographic groups still had the lowest per capita spending. In contrast to this, per-person total food expenditures were greatest for households in the highest income quintile, for one-person households, and for households with heads between 55 and 64 years of age.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33610/files/ai010773.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersab:33610

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.33610

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Agricultural Information Bulletins from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().