Maanviljelijä- ja palkansaajaruokakuntien ravintomenojen riippuvuus eräistä tekijöistä

Authors

• Maire Honkanen Helsingin yliopiston kodin taloustieteen laitos

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.71696

Abstract

The relationship between food expenditure and several factors has been discussed in the paper, on the basis of regression analysis on the data collected for the 1959/60 rural consumption investigation. It was, for instance, found that the consumer unit scale based on calory requirements is not the most suitable one, when food consumption expenses are studied. It was found that several expense items were related (tables 1 and 2) to e.g. the housewife’s paid work outside the home and the number of children and consumer units in the household. Relationships were also found between some expense items, and various times of the year and geographic regions. Classifying the data into various expenditure groups did not, however, make possible further differentiation between high- and low-unit-priced foods in the food budget. Since rural population, the results must only be regarded as indicative of the factors that have to be considered in closer studies of the food expenditure.