Consumption patterns of major food items in Turkey
Ozer, H.
Pakistan Development Review 42(1): 29-40
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-9729 DOI: 10.2307/41260520Document Number: 557280
Food consumption patterns of Turkish households are examined using data from the Household Income and Consumption Expenditure Survey for the year 1994, which covered 26 256 households. The marginal budget share estimates indicate that the largest portion of an increase in the food budget goes to vegetables and fruit. Vegetables and fruit, bread and cereals, and milk, dairy products, fats, oils and eggs are the most important commodity groups in the food budget of the households. On the other hand, the households spend proportionately less of their food budget on meat, fish and poultry and various processed food products. The elasticities of demand indicate that meat, fish and poultry, and tobacco products, liquors and beverages are largely luxuries relative to the other food items. Moreover, compensated and uncompensated price elasticities show that bread and cereals are the least responsive to changed own-price, and income-compensated own-price elasticities are lower in absolute value than uncompensated elasticities.