Household’s demand for Food Commodities in Pakistan: Issues and Empirical Evidence

Akram, Naeem

La Demanda de Alimentos en Pakistan: Problemas y Evidencia Empírica

dc.creator	Akram, Naeem
dc.date	2020-04-27
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-05T18:33:38Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-05T18:33:38Z
dc.identifier	https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/57112
dc.identifier.uri	https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/189088
dc.description	The household’s demand analysis is very crucial in the sense that undernourishment negatively affects productivity. Food demand is crucial to gauge the household’s ability or willingness to purchase/consume different food commodities. The study attempts to analyze the household’s food demand in Pakistan by estimating the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) on Household Integrated Income and Consumption Survey (HIICS) 2015-16 data. It has been found that the household’s locality, dependency ratio, living in own house, age and level of education of household head have significant impacts on demand for different food commodities. It has been further found that hoteling, fruits & dry fruits, soft drinks & bottled water, bakery products, beef & mutton, chicken &seafood are luxury goods. Eggs, sugar & sweets, pulses, tea & coffee, vegetables, rice, and edible oil & ghee are necessity goods. The spices, milk & yogurt and wheat are close to sticky food items. The price elasticities suggest that the demand for beef & mutton, seafood, eggs, and soft drinks is relatively elastic in comparison to other food commodity groups. Moreover, the demand for tea & coffee is least elastic revealing that price of tea has a very marginal impact on its demand.	en-US
dc.description	El análisis de la demanda de alimentos de los hogares es crucial porque la des- nutrición afecta negativamente a la productividad y porque permite evaluar sus posibilidades de comprar y consumir diferentes alimentos. Este trabajo aplica el Sistema cuadrático casi ideal de demanda (QUAIDS) a la encuesta integrada de hogares de Pakistan para el periodo 2015-2016. Se encuentra que los princi- pales determinantes de la demanda son la localización, razón de dependencia, propiedad de vivienda, edad y educación, estimando las elasticidades precio e ingreso para los distintos bienes.	es-ES
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dc.format	application/xml
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Departamento de Economía - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile.	en-US
dc.relation	https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/57112/60643
dc.relation	https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/57112/61573
dc.rights	Copyright (c) 2020 Estudios de Economía	en-US
dc.source	Estudios de Economía; Vol. 47 No. 1 (2020): June; 127 - 145	en-US
dc.source	Estudios de Economía; Vol. 47 Núm. 1 (2020): June; 127 - 145	es-ES
dc.source	0718-5286
dc.source	0304-2758
dc.subject	Demand System	en-US
dc.subject	income and expenditure	en-US
dc.subject	microdata	en-US
dc.subject	Pakistan	en-US
dc.subject	Sistema de demanda	es-ES
dc.subject	ingresos y gastos	es-ES
dc.subject	microdatos	es-ES
dc.subject	Pakistan	es-ES
dc.title	Household’s demand for Food Commodities in Pakistan: Issues and Empirical Evidence	en-US
dc.title	La Demanda de Alimentos en Pakistan: Problemas y Evidencia Empírica	es-ES
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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