Modeling Household Income and Consumption Expenditure Multipliers for Uzbekistan Based on SAM

Recommendations for improving Guatemala's food fortification program based on household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data.

BACKGROUND Fortification offers great potential for reducing the enormous disease burden of micronutrient deficiencies. The lack of information on food consumption patterns has been a major impediment to the development of fortification programs. In some countries, the absence of this information has been an obstacle to the introduction of fortification. In countries that have fortification, go...

Household Income Sharing, Joint Consumption and the Expenditure Patterns of Australian Retired Couples and Single People

What level of household income is required so that a household member will have the same level of consumption as when living alone? The answer to this question depends on the extent to which household income is directed towards the consumption needs of the particular person, together with the extent to which there is shared consumption of household goods. This paper proposes a framework which p...

Consumption and the Within-Household Income Distribution:

Household Energy Expenditure and Income Groups: Evidence from Great Britain

Household energy use is increasingly important in the context of fuel poverty and the equity debate as well as in relation to energy saving and efficiency policies. We first explore the link between household energy spending and income. We use a panel dataset from a comprehensive survey of UK households from 1991 to 2007 comprising over 77,000 observations to analyse electricity, gas, and overa...

Household income and expenditure surveys: a tool for accelerating the development of evidence-based fortification programs.

BACKGROUND One-third of the world's population suffers from micronutrient deficiencies due primarily to inadequate dietary intake. Food fortification is often touted as the most promising short- to medium-term strategy for combating these deficiencies. Despite its appealing characteristics, progress in fortification has been slow. OBJECTIVE To assess the potential of household food-purchase d...