Patterns and determinats of fruits and vegetables consumption of different income groups in the Philippines
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2011-03-28
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This study assesses the observable effects of income and nutritional knowledge on the supposed nature of fruits and vegetables among different income groups - whether these goods are treated as inferior or normal goods. Using the household-level data from the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey of the National Statistics Office which primarily profiles of the fruit and vegetable consumption of Filipinos on the basis of income while controlling for socio- demographic and economic factors like education, health-related and family matters. The results show that consumption of fruits and vegetables is an inferior good taking into consideration the decreasing budget share of these good as household income increases. Our findings also reflect that higher income of the high skilled occupational groups also lead to higher consumption when relating it to nutrition knowledge. In addition, inferiority of these goods is most evident in urban Luzon region while Visayas and Mindanao regions show otherwise. Overall, the patterns of fruit and vegetable consumption differ across the different regions and varying educational attainment and major occupational groups.
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fruit and vegetable, income, consumption, education, age, occupation, nutrition