Abstract

LLAMAS HUITRON, Ignacio; CHARLES LEIJA, Humberto Armando  and  ABOITES MANRIQUE, Gilberto. Gasto en alimentos y bebidas fuera del hogar: El caso de México, 1992 y 2008. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2012, n.37, pp.177-198. ISSN 2448-7481.

A model was built in order to deal with the determinants of the probability that a household expends in food and drinks away from home, in Mexico for the years of 1992 and 2008. The variables taken into consideration as determinants were: household's income decile; age, sex, and education level of household's head; household size, household's members in the labor market, number of scholarship receivers, number of household's members under 12 and above 65 years old; and household urban or rural site. A logit model was used to fit the data of Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso y Gasto de los Hogares 1992 and 2008. The variables that more positively impact the probability of consumption away from home were the household income decile, the level of education of household's head, and household urban site while household head's female and age, household size, and the number of members under 12 and above 65 years old had a negative effect in such a probability.

Keywords : household; consumption; food expenditure; labour market; binomial logit.