A Two‐Stage Rural Household Demand Analysis: Microdata Evidence from Jiangsu Province, China

Gao, Xiaoming; Wailes, Eric J.; Cramer, Gail L.

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“…Even if FAFH expenditure is well-recorded in household surveys, these surveys may not collect data on the quantities of foods consumed away from home, as is the case for the Chinese Rural Household Survey. Due to a lack of price and quantity information, FAFH is often neglected in food demand analyses, such as Fan, Wailes, and Cramer (1995) and Gao, Wailes and Cramer (1996). Thus, both surveys show a similar increasing trend of FAFH in rural China.…”

Section: Food Consumption Biasmentioning

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Matching food with mouths: A statistical explanation to the abnormal decline of per capita food consumption in rural China

Abler

2016

Food Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This study provides an alternative explanation for the unusual apparent decline in food consumption in rural China after 2000. We find that it is mainly attributable to significant measurement errors in the Chinese Rural Household Survey and the calculation of per capita food consumption. In a household survey, total consumption for a household in a certain period is often well recorded, and per capita consumption is obtained by dividing total consumption by household size. Such a calculation of per capita food consumption is vulnerable to a mismatch between food and mouths. Total consumption may be subject to measurement errors caused primarily by food away from home (FAFH). Also, the household size recorded in the survey is not necessarily the same as the number of mouths (consumption household size), who consume the food recorded in the survey. Our results indicate that food consumption in rural China is currently being underestimated by about 30%. Our results also indicate that income elasticities of food consumption are greater than measured elasticities based on the Rural Household Survey data. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Food Consumption Biasmentioning

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Matching food with mouths: A statistical explanation to the abnormal decline of per capita food consumption in rural China

Abler

2016

Food Policy

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“…However, it is usually impossible in practice. To handle the price aggregation in a two-stage budgeting process, Gorman (1959b) suggests to use an additively separable utility function, which implies the homothetic preferences for commodities in the same group (Fan et al, 1995, Gao et al, 1996, Edgerton, 1997, Deaton and Muellbauer, 1980b. Hence, an additive separability utility function and a linear expenditure functional form are chosen in the first stage to allocate the total expenditure.…”

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“…Households tend to shift from traditional dietary dominated by fiber food to highvalue and quality food in company of rapid economic growth (Yu and Abler, 2009;Gao et al, 1996;Obayelu et al 2009;Tian and Yu 2013;Yu, Gao and Zeng 2014).…”

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“…After three decades of remarkable economic growth, the dietary structure changes dramatically in China and a large volume of literature has been devoted to this topic (e.g. Lewis and Andrews, 1989;Fan et al, 1994;Fan et al, 1995;Gao et al, 1996;Ma et al, 2004;Yen et al, 2004;Wan, 2005;Jiang and Davis, 2007;Zheng and Henneberry, 2009;Tian and Yu 2013).…”

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Dynamic food demand in urban China

Zhou

Herzfeld

2015

China Agricultural Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Dynamic Food Demand in Urban ChinaAbstract:Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete dynamic demand system -DLES-LA/DAIDS, which pushes forward the techniques of demand analysis.Design/methodology/approach -We employ a transitionary demand process and develop a new approach of complete demand system with a two-stage dynamic budgeting: an additively separable dynamic linear expenditure system (DLES) in the first stage and a linear approximate dynamic almost ideal demand system (LA/DAIDS). Employing provincial aggregate data (1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) from the China urban household surveys (UHS), we estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China.Findings -Our results indicate that most primary food products are necessities and price-inelastic for urban households in China. We also found that the dynamic model tends to yield relatively smaller expenditure elasticities in magnitude than the static models do due to dynamic adjusting costs, such as habit formation, switching costs, and learning process. .Practical implications -The research contributes to the demand analysis methodologically, and can be used for better projections in policy simulation models.Originality/value -This paper methodologically releases the restrictive assumption of instant adjustment in static models and allows consumers to make a dynamic decision in food consumption. Empirically, we introduce a new complete dynamic demand model and carry out a case study with the use of urban household data in China.

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“…Regional data sets from China's 1990 Rural Household Survey have been used in three recent studies (Halbrendt et al 1993;Gao et al 1993;Tan et al 1994). Halbrendt et al (1993) have estimated an AIDS of nine expenditure groups (durables, clothing and seven food commodities) using a data set of rural households from Guangdong province.…”

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Modeling China's household food demand in the transition toward a market economy

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A Two‐Stage Rural Household Demand Analysis: Microdata Evidence from Jiangsu Province, China

Cited by 72 publications

References 15 publications

Matching food with mouths: A statistical explanation to the abnormal decline of per capita food consumption in rural China

Matching food with mouths: A statistical explanation to the abnormal decline of per capita food consumption in rural China

Dynamic food demand in urban China

Modeling China's household food demand in the transition toward a market economy

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