文献类型： 会议论文

第一作者： Xiaoxia Dong

作者： Xiaoxia Dong ¹ ; Bingchuan Hu ² ;

作者机构： 1.Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencefCAAS)Key Laboratory of Digital Agricultural Early-M’arning Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, 100081, Beijing, P.R. China

2.Rural Development Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Science(CASS). 100732, Beijing, PR. China

关键词： households in urban area;food-away-from-home;regional difference;panel data

会议名称： International Conference on Agricultural Risk and Food Security 2010

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页码： 271-277

摘要： : China’s economy has been developing rapidly and people’s living standards have improved during the past decades.. With the acceleration of modem life rhythm and change of consumption concept, the food consumption pattern of urban residents has changed largely. Urban Households begin to pursue nutritious, fresh, convenient and fast food, and dining out becomes a consumption fashion. The overall goal of this paper is to better understand food-away-from-home (FAFH) consumption in urban China. We usea secondary panel data food consumption of urban residents at the provinces (municipalities) level to examine the trends in FAFH during 2000-2008. Particularly, we use fixed effects regression model to analyze the main factors through which people’s food-away-from-home expenditure and regional propensity to consume are affected. We find that, nowadays income is the most important socio economic factors that determine the food-away-from-home consumption of urban residents, and people’s FAFH consumption is highly elastic, the income elasticity of FAFH is higher in the low income group than that in the medium and high income group. Additionally, people’s consumption propensity towards dining out in westem China is somewhat higher than that in easternand central regions in China. FAFH high-income elasticity provides a good indicator for FAFH demand.

分类号： S-532