An Analysis of the Relationships of Food Expenditures and Household Socioeonomic Characteristics: For Urban Salary and Wage Earner Households

식생활비 지출규모와 가계의 사회경제적 특성간의 관계 분석 : 도시근로자 가계를 대상으로

The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationships between food expenditures and household socio-economic characteristics. Data used were taken from the 1996 National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure Survey. This study revealed that total food expenditures for urban salary and wage earner households were 347,798 won, which accounted for 27.0 percent of the total consumption expenditures and food away from home expenditures marked for 8.4 percent of the total consumption expenditures. Household income, household size, age of household head, occupation of household head, education of household head, housing tenure, wife's employment status, gender of household head, and children's age were all important factors in predicting the food consumption expenditures for urban salary and wage earner households.