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Regional Equivalence Scales for Convenience Foods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

John R. Tedford ,
Oral Capps Jr.  and
Joseph Havlicek Jr.
John R. Tedford
Affiliation:
Clarkson College of Technology
Oral Capps Jr.
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Joseph Havlicek Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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Abstract

Estimates of regional adult equivalence scales for convenience foods were obtained using the model developed by Buse and Salathe and using data from the 1977–78 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey. Wide disparities exist in scale values among regions, controlling for other factors, suggesting that age-sex composition of households have differential impacts on convenience food expenditures.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , April 1984 , pp. 33 - 39
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This work was sponsored by the Consumer Nutrition Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under contract No. 53-32U4-1-215.

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