The Estimation of Food Expenditures From Household Budget Data in the Presence of Bulk Purchases
家庭批量购买情形下的食品支出估计
The aim of this article is the estimation of annual food expenditures with limited information about bulk purchases with data from a Spanish household-budget survey for 1990-91. Three alternatives are compared. The first, currently used for official purposes, does not use all the information. The second uses all the available information in a rough way. The third assumes a formal model for the unknown frequency of purchases. The three alternatives are compared by a…