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Consumer Demand for Food Diversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

Jonq-Ying Lee  and
Mark G. Brown
Jonq-Ying Lee
Affiliation:
Florida Department of Citrus, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida
Mark G. Brown
Affiliation:
Florida Department of Citrus, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida
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Abstract

In this paper, consumer demand for food diversity is measured by the entropy and Simpson indices for budget shares. Results show that consumer demand for food diversity is related to total food expenditures and house-hold size and composition.

Keywords

food diversityentropydemandSimpson index
Type
Submitted Articles
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 1989 , pp. 47 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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